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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 2, 2025Jasper County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2025, 12:48 PM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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 2, 2025, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2025, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Jasper County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 2, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2025-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1822 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2025-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1822 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.9

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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 2, 12:24 PM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 12:24 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 2, 12:00 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
1200 PM CDT Fri May 2 2025

TXZ180-201-259-261-021730-
Hardin TX-Northern Jasper TX-Southern Jasper TX-Tyler TX-
1200 PM CDT Fri May 2 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN TYLER...
NORTHEASTERN HARDIN AND SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTIES THROUGH 1230 PM
CDT...

At 1200 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Kountze, moving northeast at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to vegetation and outdoor
         objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
Caney Head, Kountze, Honey Island, Fred, Silsbee, Village Mills,
Wildwood, and Lumberton.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3024 9427 3040 9452 3077 9431 3055 9394
TIME...MOT...LOC 1700Z 217DEG 19KT 3040 9433

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

Stigger/87

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard29 min
May 2, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard27 min
May 2, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu24 min
May 2, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu27 min
May 2, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard, Calcasieu30 min
May 2, 6:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAvoyelles28 min
May 2, 6:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHCalcasieu23 min
May 2, 6:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu5 hr
May 2, 6:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAllen32 min
May 2, 12:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin30 min
May 2, 1:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin26 min
May 2, 1:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHJasper21 min
May 2, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHJasper, Newton10 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.