Hail and Astronomical Low Tide in Louisiana, March 8 to 9, 2025

Name: Hail and Astronomical Low Tide in Louisiana, March 8 to 9, 2025
Start: 2025-03-08T20:50
End: 2025-03-09T07:00
Location: Louisiana

March 8 to 9, 2025 · NWS LCH · 5 events in 4 counties and zones

An upper disturbance and cold front moved across the region. Scattered convection was associated with the system, but one storm became severe.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 5

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.

An upper disturbance and cold front moved across the region. Scattered convection was associated with the system, but one storm became severe. Behind the cold front, strong north winds drove tides below normal.

What forecasters said that day

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 Mar 8, 5:32 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 5:32 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 7:59 PM CST, 51 minutes before

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The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:48 UTC.

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Event by event

3 astronomical low tide, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Calcasieu

When: March 8, 8:50 PM CST
Where: Calcasieu County, Maplewood
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: NWS Employee
Coordinates: 30.230, -93.320

A severe storm moved through Sulphur producing hail up to the size of quarters.

Hail, Calcasieu

When: March 8, 9:56 PM CST
Where: Calcasieu County, 1.51 mi NNW of Westlake
Measured: 1.25 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 30.250, -93.260

Astronomical Low Tide, West Cameron

When: March 9, 3:15 AM CST to 6:00 AM CST
Where: West Cameron forecast zone
Reported by: C-MAN Station
Coordinates: 29.847, -93.199 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Tides were pushed down below -1 foot MLLW for multiple hours at Sabine Pass and Cameron. The tide fell to -1.53 feet below MLLW at Cameron.

Astronomical Low Tide, East Cameron

When: March 9, 3:30 AM CST to 6:00 AM CST
Where: East Cameron forecast zone
Reported by: C-MAN Station
Coordinates: 29.847, -93.199 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Tides were pushed down below -1 foot MLLW for multiple hours at Cameron. The tide fell to -1.53 feet below MLLW at Cameron.

Astronomical Low Tide, Lower Vermilion Parish

When: March 9, 5:00 AM CST to 7:00 AM CST
Where: Lower Vermilion Parish forecast zone
Reported by: Other Federal Agency
Coordinates: 29.809, -92.304 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Tides were pushed down below -1 foot MLLW for multiple hours Freshwater Lock. The tide fell to -1.74 feet below MLLW.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Astronomical Low Tide: Unusually low water from tides and offshore wind that caused impacts.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Louisiana in 2025 Every state in 2025 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, March 2025

Sources

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: 1246401, 1246402, 1246905, 1246906, 1246908.