On June 29, lightning caused significant damage.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
On June 29, lightning caused significant damage.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 29, 2:53 AM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 353 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007 .SHORT TERM...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CONTINUES TO SHOW A SHEAR AXIS EXTENDING FROM ERN KS TO CNTL TX THIS MORNING. MEANWHILE ANOTHER LO ALOFT REMAINS OVER THE BAY OF CAMPECHE/WRN GULF. SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS AREA ON THE PERIPHERY OF BERMUDA HI. 88DS SHOW WIDELY SCATTERED RW OVER THE GULF AND MOVING NW INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES OF SRN LA/SERN TX. CONTINUED GOING TRENDS FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST. SHEAR AXIS WILL REMAIN TO OUR WEST OVER TX INTO THE WEEKEND. MOISTURE WHICH HAS BEEN DIMINISHING SOMEWHAT LAST FEW DAYS WILL START TO REBOUND WITH PWAT VALUES CREEPING BACK TOWARD 2 INCHES BY TOMORROW. MAIN PROBLEM IS A LACK OF A GOOD FOCUS FOR CONVECTION AS AREA REMAINS BETWEEN SHEAR AXIS TO THE WEST AND LO WELL TO THE SOUTH. HOWEVER WITH THE SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE IN PLACE HAVE TO RETAIN AT LEAST LOW END CHANCE POPS INTO THE WEEKEND...INCREASING TO GOOD CHANCE BY SUNDAY. .LONG TERM...PRIMARY CHANGE TO THE FORECAST COMES BY MID-WEEK AS THE SHEAR AXIS IS NO LONGER PROGGED TO HEAD THIS WAY AND RIDGING GRADUALLY BUILDS IN ALOFT. ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY LINGERS TO WARRANT LOW END CHANCE POPS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .AVIATION...MAINLY VFR THIS GO ROUND WITH THE MAIN EXCEPTION BEING KAEX WHERE MVFR CONDITIONS FOR BR ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. && .MARINE...MAINLY LIGHT WINDS/SLIGHT SEAS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH HI PRES IN CONTROL. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KLCH 90 73 89 73 / 30 20 40 20 KBPT 89 74 89 74 / 30 20 40 20 KAEX 91 72 93 72 / 30 20 40 20 KLFT 90 72 91 73 / 30 20 40 20 && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && 25
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 405 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007 GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182- 201-215-216-300915- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON, LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA TO CAMERON, LA EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM-VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD- ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY-CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA- LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN-CAMERON-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY- LOWER ST. MARTIN-TYLER-JASPER-NEWTON-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE- 405 AM CDT FRI JUN 29 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AS GULF MOISTURE BEGINS TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS ADDITIONAL MOISTURE KEEPS MAKING ITS WAY INTO THE REGION. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 25
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:15 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused a house fire. Two people were inside asleep, but woke up and escaped with no injuries. The two story house was a complete loss.
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