Last night, a band of thunderstorms associated with a meso-low located in the NW Gulf of Mexico made its presence known along the coast of South Louisiana. This along with a conducive thermodynamic environment (temps ~73, dewpoints ~70, CAPE ~1800, decent lapse rates, and an LCL ~600m) allowed these thunderstorm's to flourish even with the absence of diurnal heating. One particular cell embedded in this band went supercellular around 1:35am prompting a tornado warning from the NWS office in Lake Charles. This continued a trend that was set earlier in the day when a discrete supercell apparently produced a tornado (not confirmed) in the Slidell CWA. This warning was allowed to expire, as the coupling never really got it's act together. However, tree and powerline damage was reported about two miles south of Kaplan along Highway 35.
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