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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2026, 7:29 PM CDT for Iberia Parish, Saint Martin Parish, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 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, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2026, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Iberia Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA
The radar
The Hammond radar (KHDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 7:19 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 45 min |
| Aug 21, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Landry | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 7:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 24 min |
| Aug 21, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Iberia, Vermilion | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 8:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 24 min |
| Aug 21, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 95 min | |
| Aug 21, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 47 min |
| Aug 21, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 44 min |
| Aug 21, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Cameron, Iberia, Vermilion | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 9:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Iberia, St. Mary, Vermilion | 42 min |
| Aug 21, 9:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 64 min | |
| Aug 22, 11:37 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more | 32 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:07 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 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.