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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 4, 2025Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2025, 1:57 PM CST for Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 4, 2025, 1:57 PM CST (19:57 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2025, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Avoyelles Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Mar 4, 12:22 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -306 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 471 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 517 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

562 
WUUS54 KLCH 041957
SVRLCH
LAC009-042015-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0021.250304T1957Z-250304T2015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
157 PM CST Tue Mar 4 2025

The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Avoyelles Parish in central Louisiana...

* Until 215 PM CST.

* At 157 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Simmesport,
  moving northeast at 80 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Bordelonville, Goudeau, Dupont, Big Bend, Hamburg, Moreauville,
  Plaucheville, and Simmesport.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 700 PM CST for central
Louisiana.

&&

LAT...LON 3119 9168 3117 9168 3116 9170 3114 9172
      3110 9170 3109 9172 3107 9171 3105 9172
      3099 9178 3098 9180 3087 9180 3086 9182
      3085 9182 3085 9204 3107 9202 3120 9169
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 230DEG 69KT 3100 9185 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

Denson

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 3:14 AM CST	Coastal Flood Warning	LCH	Iberia, St. Mary, Vermilion	18 hr
Mar 4, 3:24 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		50 hr
Mar 4, 10:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	47 min
Mar 4, 10:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	26 min
Mar 4, 10:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	34 min
Mar 4, 11:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	35 min
Mar 4, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LCH	Avoyelles, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	62 min
Mar 4, 11:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 2 more	64 min
Mar 4, 12:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	33 min
Mar 4, 12:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	9 min
Mar 4, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 2 more	43 min
Mar 4, 1:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	17 min
Mar 4, 1:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry	44 min
Mar 4, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Avoyelles, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion	47 min
Mar 4, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary	46 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.