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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 4, 2025Iberia Parish, Saint Martin Parish, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2025, 4:14 PM CST for Iberia Parish, Saint Martin Parish, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 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: Mar 4, 2025, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2025, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Iberia Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA

The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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

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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 Mar 4, 3:22 PM CST, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 3:22 PM CST, 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 4, 2:33 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 4, 2:38 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 4, 2:49 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 4, 2:53 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 4, 2:57 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 4, 3:04 PM CST, 1 hour 10 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
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, 1:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	18 min
Mar 4, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Avoyelles, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion	47 min
Mar 4, 9:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	38 min
Mar 4, 9:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler	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.