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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2026, 5:17 PM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 21, 2026, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2026, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1303 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 11:54 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more | 32 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 23 min |
| Aug 21, 3:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 24 min |
| Aug 21, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 28 min |
| Aug 21, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Evangeline | 28 min |
| Aug 21, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Landry | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline, Saint Landry | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 48 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.