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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 8, 2025Calcasieu Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2025, 9:56 PM CST for Calcasieu Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 45 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 8, 2025, 9:56 PM CST (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2025, 10:41 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Calcasieu Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 325 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: 129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -224 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 8, 5:32 PM CST, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 5:32 PM CST, 4 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 7:25 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 7:59 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 8:44 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 9:13 PM CST, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 9:49 PM CST, 7 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
949 PM CST Sat Mar 8 2025

TXZ201-090415-
Hardin TX-
949 PM CST Sat Mar 8 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL HARDIN COUNTY THROUGH
1015 PM CST...

At 949 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Saratoga, moving east at 40 mph.

HAZARD...Half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Minor damage to vegetation and outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
Lumberton, Saratoga, Kountze, and Silsbee.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3035 9455 3044 9411 3043 9412 3040 9412
      3039 9410 3036 9410 3035 9408 3034 9410
      3028 9412 3026 9411 3026 9410 3024 9412
      3022 9412 3020 9409 3019 9410 3021 9457
TIME...MOT...LOC 0349Z 262DEG 35KT 3027 9450

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH

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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 8, 9:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	32 min
Mar 8, 9:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	37 min
Mar 9, 3:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	25 min
Mar 9, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	24 min
Mar 9, 4:42 AM CDT	Low Water Advisory	LCH		8 hr
Mar 9, 2:12 PM CDT	Low Water Advisory	LCH		22 hr
Mar 8, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	58 min
Mar 8, 7:25 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	35 min
Mar 8, 7:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper	46 min
Mar 8, 8:44 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Orange	31 min
Mar 8, 9:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	26 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.