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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 5, 2026Allen Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2026, 3:41 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 38 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: Jul 5, 2026, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2026, 4:19 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 1044 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Jul 5, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline, Saint Landry	37 min
Jul 5, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	28 min
Jul 5, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	23 min
Jul 5, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	35 min
Jul 5, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Lafayette	31 min
Jul 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	30 min
Jul 5, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Assumption	32 min
Jul 5, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Lafayette	27 min
Jul 5, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia	31 min
Jul 5, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia	35 min
Jul 5, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	50 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.