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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 25, 2025Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Nov 25, 2025, 1:21 AM CST for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 25, 2025, 1:21 AM CST (07:21 UTC)
Expired: Nov 25, 2025, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Newton County, TX

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 1580 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 8.0

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The text

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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
Nov 25, 10:43 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		49 hr
Nov 24, 8:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	32 min
Nov 25, 12:30 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	30 min

Nearby

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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.