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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 6, 2025Avoyelles Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2025, 12:02 PM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 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 6, 2025, 12:02 PM CDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2025, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 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 nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 338 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 6, 10:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 10:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 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
May 5, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		34 min
May 5, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		33 min
May 5, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		49 min
May 5, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		45 min
May 5, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		45 min
May 5, 9:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		45 min
May 5, 10:15 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		45 min
May 5, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		52 min
May 5, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		46 min
May 5, 11:12 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		48 min
May 5, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		44 min
May 6, 12:06 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		24 min
May 6, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		33 min
May 6, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
May 6, 1:06 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		24 min
May 6, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		34 min
May 6, 2:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	28 min
May 6, 10:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Vermilion	16 days
May 6, 10:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry	6 days
May 6, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion	32 min
May 6, 11:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry	28 min
May 6, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin	31 min
May 6, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	26 min
May 6, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Martin	33 min
May 6, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	31 min
May 6, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	36 min
May 6, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	29 min
May 6, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	16 min
May 6, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	16 min
May 6, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	30 min
May 6, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	44 min
May 6, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	26 min
May 6, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	36 min
May 6, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	29 min
May 6, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	23 min
May 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	29 min
May 6, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	17 min
May 6, 6:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	10 hr
May 6, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	34 min
May 6, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	29 min
May 6, 6:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	9 hr
May 6, 6:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	7 hr
May 6, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Landry	25 min
May 6, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	23 min
May 6, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Orange	27 min
May 6, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	24 min
May 6, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	23 min
May 6, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	43 min
May 6, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	33 min
May 6, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	46 min
May 6, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	28 min
May 6, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	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.