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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 21, 2025Cameron Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2025, 7:54 AM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 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: May 21, 2025, 7:54 AM CDT (12:54 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2025, 8:47 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Cameron Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 May 21, 6:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 6:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 21, 7:48 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 7:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	52 min
May 20, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	58 min
May 20, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	44 min
May 20, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	33 min
May 20, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	43 min
May 21, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Landry	30 min
May 21, 6:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		30 min
May 21, 6:29 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		49 min
May 21, 6:56 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		64 min
May 21, 7:12 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
May 21, 7:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	27 min
May 21, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		62 min
May 21, 8:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	35 min
May 21, 8:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia	24 min
May 21, 9:08 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		22 min
May 21, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
May 21, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Landry	11 min
May 21, 9:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Martin	3 hr
May 21, 10:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		37 min
May 21, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		14 min
May 21, 11:04 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		41 min
May 20, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Newton	48 min
May 21, 9:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson	38 min
May 21, 10:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson	25 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.