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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Lake Charles, LA
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 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.
- 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
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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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/87The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 29 min |
| May 2, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 27 min |
| May 2, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 24 min |
| May 2, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 27 min |
| May 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu | 30 min |
| May 2, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 28 min |
| May 2, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu | 23 min |
| May 2, 6:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 5 hr |
| May 2, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 32 min |
| May 2, 12:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin | 30 min |
| May 2, 1:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin | 26 min |
| May 2, 1:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper | 21 min |
| May 2, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 10 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.