NWS Lake Charles LCH
22 counties, 4 radars, one forecaster on the warning desk when it goes bad. This page is what that desk is looking at, plus the nets that feed it.
1 active · 0 warnings
NWS checked 11:27 PM- Fire Weather WatchSevere · RFWLCH · until Sat 6:00 AMVernon; Rapides; Avoyelles; Beauregard; Allen; Evangeline; St. Landry; Lafayette; Upper St. Martin; Northern Calcasieu; Northern Jefferson Davis; Northern Acadia; Tyler; Hardin; Northern Jasper; Northern Newton; Southern Jasper; Southern Newton
Radar
NWS RIDGE · base reflectivity · last hour
Deeper look: KPOE interactive ↗ · KPOE at College of DuPage ↗ · KLCH interactive ↗ · KLCH at College of DuPage ↗ - velocity, correlation coefficient and every tilt.
SPC outlook · day 1
categorical
Marginal → Slight → Enhanced → Moderate → High · day 2 ↗ · mesoscale discussions ↗
Reports taken by this office today
0 · SPC preliminaryCameras near the office
none listed yetRadar tells you what the storm is doing; these tell you what it looks like. Pictures open at their source - ODOT and the Mesonet allow linking, not republishing.
SKYWARN & weather nets for this office
Suggest or fix one →Citizen weather stations nearby
7 reporting within 200 mi · APRS, last 2 h| Station | Temp | Hum | Wind | Gust | Rain 24 h | Pressure | Dist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI5ON | 83° | 64% | 1 E | 1 | - | 1016.4 | 33 mi |
| KJ5PTH | 86° | 78% | calm | - | - | 1017.6 | 41 mi |
| KD5VOO | 87° | 33% | calm | - | - | 1014.3 | 68 mi |
| N5PRN | 87° | 48% | calm | 1 | - | 1015.7 | 77 mi |
| KD5BIG-13 | 82° | 57% | 2 W | 2 | - | 1020.3 | 79 mi |
| KE5JZM-1 | 84° | 64% | 2 SSW | 4 | - | 1016.7 | 97 mi |
| KC5DP | 79° | 68% | calm | - | - | 1016.4 | 102 mi |
Heard on APRS-IS, receive only. These are privately owned stations reporting themselves — treat them as a hint about what the air is doing between the official sites, not as verified observations. Wind and gust are mph. See them on the map →
NOAA Weather Radio in this area
7 transmitters · this office’s first, neighbours afterWhat to report, and where
Size charts and the full guide →- ·Tornado on the ground (say if you see debris)
- ·Funnel cloud - rotating, not touching down
- ·Wall cloud, especially a rotating one
- ·Where it is relative to you, and which way it's moving
- ·The largest stone, compared to a coin or ball (chart below)
- ·1″ (quarter) is the severe threshold - smaller is still worth a report to most offices
- ·How long it fell and whether it's covering the ground
- ·Measured gusts of 40 mph+; 58 mph is severe
- ·Damage: trees down, limbs bigger than your arm, roof or structure damage, power lines
- ·Say whether it was measured or estimated
- ·Water over a road, especially moving water
- ·Creeks and rivers rising fast or out of their banks
- ·Rainfall of 1″ or more in an hour if you have a gauge
- ·Snowfall of 1″ an hour or more, and totals
- ·Freezing rain and ice accumulation on wires and trees
- ·Visibility under ¼ mile, blowing and drifting
- ·Lightning and thunder on their own
- ·Rain that isn't causing flooding
- ·Ordinary dark clouds, scud, or clouds that only look scary
- 1 · The net, if one is up
When the office activates SKYWARN, a net control on the local repeater takes reports in a set format and relays them straight to the forecaster. Listen first, check in when asked, keep it short: who, what, where, when.
- 2 · The office directly
No net running? Every office has a spotter line or online report form on its SKYWARN page - for you that’s NWS Lake Charles. Trained spotters get the number in class; anyone can use the form.
- 3 · Tell the room here
/report hail quarter · 71st & Memorial in #la-wx puts it in front of everyone watching the state. It does not reach the NWS - do 1 or 2 for that.