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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
757 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FOR...
WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM...
WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA FROM 20
TO 60 NM...
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT.
* AT 757 PM CDT, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER VERMILION
245, OR 66 NM SOUTHWEST OF MARSH ISLAND, MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
KNOTS.
HAZARD...WIND GUSTS 34 KNOTS OR GREATER AND LARGE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR.
IMPACT...SMALL CRAFT COULD BE DAMAGED IN BRIEFLY HIGHER WINDS AND
SUDDENLY HIGHER WAVES. LARGE HAIL COULD RESULT IN
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
VERMILION 245, SOUTH MARSH ISLAND 69, VERMILION 256, SOUTH MARSH
ISLAND 58, VERMILION 250, VERMILION 252, VERMILION 226, VERMILION
215, AND VERMILION 214.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES.
WIND GUSTS 34 KNOTS OR GREATER, LARGE HAIL, HIGH WAVES, DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING, AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 2853 9242 2854 9251 2857 9264 2886 9229
2860 9201 2849 9232
TIME...MOT...LOC 0057Z 239DEG 24KT 2857 9243
HAIL...>.75IN
WIND...>34KTS
DENSON
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