Special Weather Statement
NWS Lake Charles LA ยท US
Details
A Strong Thunderstorm Will Impact West Central Calcasieu Parish In Southwestern Louisiana And Eastern Orange Counties Through 530 PM CDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 446 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Forest Heights, or near Orange, moving southwest at 15 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Orange, Vidor, Bridge City, West Orange, Pinehurst, Hartburg, Forest Heights, and Orangefield. This includes the following highways... Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 880 and 865. Interstate 10 in Louisiana near mile marker 2.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle.
Affected areas
- Northern Calcasieu
- Southern Newton
- Northern Orange
- Southern Orange
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Lake Charles LA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~51s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M35HBZQ96JDN628T9HP2P66Y
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.d68da8cc97ea6bfd52bffa8c235718fe62d81c14.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Lake Charles LA
- AWIPS ID
- CAPLCH
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.6431
- WMO heading
- XOUS54
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 54
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSLCH |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS84 KLCH 222146 |
| NWSheadline | A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND EASTERN ORANGE COUNTIES THROUGH 530 PM CDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-22T21:46:00-00:00...storm...037DEG...12KT...30.2,-93.74 |
| maxWindGust | 40 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Northern Calcasieu
- Southern Newton
- Northern Orange
- Southern Orange
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 022019 |
| SAME | 048351 |
| SAME | 048361 |
| UGC | LAZ141 |
| UGC | TXZ262 |
| UGC | TXZ516 |
| UGC | TXZ616 |
- Polygons
- 30.3,-93.75 30.21,-93.63 30.14,-93.67 30.13,-93.7 30.11,-93.7 30.11,-93.71 30.08,-93.72 30.09,-93.73 30.07,-93.72 30.02,-93.75 30.01,-93.77 30.13,-93.96 30.3,-93.75