Thunderstorms briefly reached severe limits in south central Louisiana.
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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.
Thunderstorms briefly reached severe limits in south central Louisiana.
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 May 23, 3:41 AM CST, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 441 AM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 .DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW SPINNING OVER EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING PROGGED TO SINK SOUTHWARD AND SHEAR OUR OVER THE NEXT 24 HRS OR SO. MOISTURE AXIS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE WILL EXTEND ROUGHLY FROM ALEXANDRIA TO LAFAYETTE TODAY...AND WILL CARRY HIGHEST POPS IN THIS GENERAL AREA. HAVE UNDERCUT MOS TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE ACROSS THE BOARD FOR THIS AFTERNOON GIVEN THE ANTICIPATED CLOUD COVER AND OBSERVED HIGHS YESTERDAY. DEEPEST MOISTURE WILL SHIFT TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST CWA FOR THURSDAY...WHICH WILL PROVIDE YET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR ENHANCED RAIN CHANCES BEFORE RELATIVELY DRIER AIR STARTS TO BACK INTO THE AREA FRIDAY AS H7 RIDGE SINKS INTO THE MID ATLANTIC STATES. THIS WILL YIELD A MOSTLY DRY WEEKEND...WITH SMALL RAIN CHANCES CONFINED MAINLY TO EAST TEXAS...AND THE DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGE WIDENING A BIT. RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO PULL OFF TO THE EAST EARLY NEXT WEEK...AND IN THE MEANTIME...H5 TROF IS PROGGED TO BE EMERGING FROM CENTRAL TX. STILL SOME DIFFERENCES AMONGST THE MEDIUM TO LONG RANGE MODELS AS TO HOW THIS FEATURE WILL EVOLVE...BUT THE WANING INFLUENCE OF THE RIDGE WARRANTS SMALL POPS CREEPING UP A BIT EACH DAY NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION...SOME LIGHT RESTRICTIONS TO VISIBILITY THIS MORNING ALL TERMINALS EXCEPT KBPT...WHERE LOW LEVEL CLOUD DECK HAS PREVENTED TEMPERATURES FROM FALLING BELOW THE MID 70S. VISIBILITIES WILL IMPROVE A COUPLE OF HRS AFTER SUNRISE...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN TODAY. && .MARINE...MODEST SOUTHEAST TO EAST FLOW IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE...AS SFC HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATES THE SOUTHEASTERN CONUS. MAY BE A FEW PERIODS OF SCEC CRITERIA HERE AND THERE...BUT FOR THE MOST PART WINDS AND SEES LOOK TO STAY JUST BELOW CRITERIA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KLCH 82 69 82 66 / 40 20 40 20 KBPT 83 71 82 69 / 30 20 50 20 KAEX 81 66 84 64 / 50 20 30 20 KLFT 81 67 83 65 / 50 20 30 10 && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && 13
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 550 AM CDT WED MAY 23 2007 GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182- 201-215-216-241100- 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- 550 AM CDT WED MAY 23 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 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...BUT NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ABOVE NORMAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ON THURSDAY...BEFORE DRIER AIR BEGINS TO FILTER INTO THE REGION ON FRIDAY AND LINGER INTO THE WEEKEND. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 13
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An intense thunderstorm damaged 11 homes and one business around Catahoula.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, May 2007
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 35489, 35487, 35488.