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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 11, 2025Vernon Parish, Louisiana; Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2025, 2:52 PM CDT for Vernon Parish, Louisiana; Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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: Jun 11, 2025, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2025, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Vernon Parish, LA, Newton County, TX

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1098 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 11, 12:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier. Its key messages:

A Marginal to Slight risk of severe storms and excessive rainfall are outlined across the forecast today
We get a little break from the heat this week with several days of rain cooled air and cloud cover.
High rain chances will persist through the week and into this weekend.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 12:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
1243 PM CDT Wed Jun 11 2025

...New AVIATION...

.KEY MESSAGES...

- A Marginal to Slight risk of severe storms and excessive
  rainfall are outlined across the forecast today

- We get a little break from the heat this week with several days
  of rain cooled air and cloud cover.

- High rain chances will persist through the week and into this
  weekend.

&&

.SHORT TERM...
(Today through Friday night)
Issued at 314 AM CDT Wed Jun 11 2025

An upper trough is over much of the eastern CONUS this morning
while an upper low is cutting off over western Texas. A MCS is
over central TX and is gradually shifting east while decreasing in
intensity somewhat. A weak frontal boundary stretches from
central TX across central LA into central MS.

Through the morning, the diffluent pattern aloft ahead of the
developing west TX upper low may allow a few showers and storms
to potentially develop along the coast and spread inland. The
central TX MCS will move closer and roughly along the weak frontal
boundary and be near or in the Sabine Valley around mid day or
shortly after. The moist and unstable airmass may allow for an
isolated severe storm during the afternoon as the line of storms
moves through, but mainly in SE TX where SPC has highlighted a
portion of the region as having a slight risk. The very moist
airmass with PWATs at or above 2" (90th percentile and higher)
will allow for very efficient rain producing storms. If any
training develops amounts may stack up quickly.

By Thursday the west TX upper low will travel to north TX. The
pattern aloft will remain diffluent. While the bulk of the
convection will remain west of the local area, widespread
afternoon convection is likely.

The upper low lifts into the central MS Valley by Friday, but a
weakness aloft remains in place locally. Widespread afternoon
thunderstorms are again anticipated. Some of which will be capable
of very heavy rain.

&&

.LONG TERM...
(Saturday through Wednesday)
Issued at 314 AM CDT Wed Jun 11 2025

A weakness aloft is expected to remain in place through the
weekend and into early next week. Scattered to numerous mainly
diurnal storms are anticipated each day.

By mid week an upper ridge may nudge back in from the east. Rain
chances will decrease, but the trade off will be apparent
temperatures back to near heat adv criteria.

&&

.AVIATION...
(18Z TAFS)
Issued at 1234 PM CDT Wed Jun 11 2025

A line of storms is moving across SETX this afternoon with a few
showers and storms popping up ahead of the line and along the
coast. Some of these showers and storms could be strong, producing
heavy showers that reduce vis or hail and damaging winds. Activity
will taper tonight and there is a low end chance of fog in the
predawn hours.

&&

.MARINE...
Issued at 314 AM CDT Wed Jun 11 2025

Light to occasionally modest onshore flow and low seas will
persist through this week. Elevated thunderstorm chances will
linger through the week and the upcoming weekend which may cause
locally higher winds and seas.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AEX  71  89  72  91 /  30  70  20  70
LCH  77  88  78  90 /  30  70  30  60
LFT  74  88  75  89 /  30  80  20  80
BPT  77  88  77  90 /  30  60  20  60

&&

.LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
LA...None.
TX...None.
GM...None.
&&

SHORT TERM...05
LONG TERM....05
AVIATION...87

In the hours 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
Jun 11, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	30 min
Jun 11, 12:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	24 min
Jun 11, 12:25 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		35 min
Jun 11, 1:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	27 min
Jun 11, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	30 min
Jun 11, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		28 min
Jun 11, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	27 min
Jun 11, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	29 min
Jun 11, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	35 min
Jun 11, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	33 min
Jun 11, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	25 min
Jun 11, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	34 min
Jun 11, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	48 min
Jun 11, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	29 min
Jun 11, 6:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	49 min
Jun 11, 12:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	26 min
Jun 11, 1:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Orange, Tyler	25 min
Jun 11, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	15 min
Jun 11, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Orange	30 min
Jun 11, 1:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jefferson	3 hr
Jun 11, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.