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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 5, 2025Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 5, 2025, 3:37 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2025, 3:37 PM CST (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Jan 5, 2025, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Vernon Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 5, 10:29 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 5, 11:42 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 11:42 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 5, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
215 PM CST Sun Jan 5 2025

LAZ027-TXZ180-201-259-260-052100-
Vernon LA-Hardin TX-Northern Newton TX-Northern Jasper TX-Tyler TX-
215 PM CST Sun Jan 5 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN VERNON PARISH...
TYLER...NORTHERN NEWTON...NORTHEASTERN HARDIN AND JASPER COUNTIES
THROUGH 300 PM CST...

At 214 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Pineland to 9 miles north of Votaw.
Movement was east at 45 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Ivanhoe, Mayflower, Kirbyville, Spurger, Warren, Town Bluff,
Harrisburg, Browndell, Village Mills, Caney Head, Toledo Bend Dam,
Sam Rayburn Dam, Ebenezer, Farrsville, Woodville, Fred, Magnolia
Springs, Burr Ferry, Mt. Union, and Wiergate.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 PM CST for west central
Louisiana...and southeastern Texas.

&&

LAT...LON 3108 9422 3116 9391 3117 9358 3128 9353
      3124 9328 3052 9404 3052 9407 3040 9417
      3051 9454 3071 9459
TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 284DEG 42KT 3127 9393 3056 9463

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

Rua

Special weather statement, Jan 5, 2:59 PM CST, 38 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
259 PM CST Sun Jan 5 2025

LAZ027-028-030-TXZ180-201-259>262-515-516-052145-
Beauregard LA-Vernon LA-Rapides LA-Hardin TX-Northern Orange TX-
Southern Newton TX-Northern Newton TX-Northern Jasper TX-
Southern Jasper TX-Upper Jefferson TX-Tyler TX-
259 PM CST Sun Jan 5 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN RAPIDES...WESTERN
BEAUREGARD AND VERNON PARISHES...NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON...
SOUTHEASTERN TYLER...NEWTON...HARDIN...NORTHWESTERN ORANGE AND
SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTIES THROUGH 345 PM CST...

At 259 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles east of Hornbeck to near Daisetta.
Movement was east at 45 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to vegetation and outdoor
         objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
Weiss Bluff, Trout Creek, Bivens, Hutton, Lumberton, Evadale,
Mayflower, Kirbyville, New Llano, Kurthwood, Sieper, Silsbee, Caney
Head, Toledo Bend Dam, Anacoco, Lacamp, Lakeview, Honey Island, Lena,
and Clifton.

This includes Interstate 49 between mile markers 96 and 109.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 PM CST for central,
southwestern and west central Louisiana...and southeastern Texas.

&&

LAT...LON 3147 9271 3139 9266 3141 9254 3020 9397
      3004 9437 3005 9444 3011 9445 3011 9460
      3026 9465 3118 9363 3119 9355 3128 9351
      3128 9344 3136 9339 3135 9295 3147 9278
TIME...MOT...LOC 2059Z 275DEG 45KT 3136 9329 3016 9467

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

Rua

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 2:33 AM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 4 more	18 hr
Jan 5, 3:31 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more	30 hr
Jan 5, 3:31 AM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia and 6 more	30 hr
Jan 5, 2:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	46 min
Jan 5, 3:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	44 min
Jan 5, 4:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Rapides	59 min
Jan 5, 4:52 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		38 min
Jan 5, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Rapides	33 min
Jan 5, 5:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis	61 min
Jan 5, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry	15 min
Jan 5, 5:46 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		59 min
Jan 5, 2:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	45 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.