![]() Upon first inspection of the National Weather Service Lake Charles station discovered the WSR-88D radome failure within the high winds of the eyewall.Īcross the remainder of Calcasieu Parish, downtown Lake Charles, Louisiana at the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury building, measured a maximum sustained wind of 101 mph (88 knots) with a peak gust of 137 mph (119 knots) at 1:35 AM CDT August 27th just before the instrument failed. The Lake Charles, LA WSR-88D recorded the final radar image at 12:53 AM CDT. However, the ASOS barometer sensor that was safely within the LCH NWS building (which remained intact) recorded a station record minimum sea level pressure of 956 millibars (28.23 inches) at 2:20 AM CDT when the eye of Hurricane Laura passed nearly overhead. The National Weather Service Lake Charles, Louisiana (located at the Lake Charles Regional Airport) recorded a station record highest peak wind gust of 133 mph (116 knots) at 1:42 AM CDT just before the KLCH ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System) equipment was destroyed. Further east at Cameron, the National Ocean Service tide gage measured a peak wind of 127 mph (110 knots) at 12:24 AM CDT and a minimum sea level pressure of 940.0 mb (27.76 inches) at 12:54 AM CDT August 27th. Other observations sites failed within the high winds and storm surge. Homes and other structures were damaged from fallen trees or the winds in Jefferson Davis, Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Beauregard, Allen, Evangeline, Saint Landry, Vernon, Rapides, and Avoyelles Parishes, Louisiana.Īcross Cameron Parish, the highest winds of 153 mph (133 knots) was measured at Holly Beach, Louisiana at 12:33 AM CDT on August 27th with a pressure of 945.0 millibars (27.91 inches of mercury). ![]() Numerous trees, power lines and power poles were blown down in Jefferson, Orange, Hardin, Tyler, Jasper, and Newton Counties in Texas, with some homes and businesses damaged from the trees or the winds in those counties. Wind damage to trees and structures as well as damage from the storm surge occurred in Vermilion and Iberia Parishes. With this being the strongest hurricane to affect Southwest Louisiana, wind damage to buildings and trees and storm surge damage was major to catastrophic across Cameron and Calcasieu parishes, with considerable damage occurring where the core of the hurricane passed across Beauregard and Vernon parishes. ![]() Click here for additional track data of Hurricane Laura. ![]() Laura finally weakened below hurricane strength by Noon as it was crossing I-20 in North Louisiana. Laura maintained major hurricane status throughout its passage across Cameron, Calcasieu and southern Beauregard Parishes, and category 2 status across northern Beauregard and Vernon parishes. The eye and eyewall of Laura passed over the entire Lake Charles metropolitan area including Lake Charles, Sulphur, Westlake, Moss Bluff and De Quincy while Laura was still a very powerful category 4 hurricane. Laura was the strongest hurricane to strike Southwest Louisiana since records began in 1851. With little change in strength, Laura made landfall at Cameron, Louisiana around 1 AM CDT August 27 th, with sustained winds of 150 mph (130 knots) and a minimum central pressure of 939 millibars (27.73 inches). Laura reached a peak intensity of 150 mph (130 knots) and a minimum central pressure of 937 millibars (27.67 inches) by 7 PM CDT. Laura began to explosively intensify on August 26 th, reaching category 2 by 1 AM CDT, category 3 by 7 AM CDT, and category 4 by 1 PM CDT. On August 25 th, Laura entered the Gulf of Mexico and became a Category 1 hurricane at 10 AM CDT. Tropical Storm Laura continued west northwestward, traveling just south of the island with a second landfall across Western Cuba late on August 24 th. Early on August 23rd, Tropical Storm Laura made landfall across Hispaniola, traversed the entire island, and made landfall across Eastern Cuba later that evening. As Laura moved westward, little additional strengthening took place as the center moved over the northern Lesser Antilles later that evening, and south of Puerto Rico on August 22 nd. On the morning of August 21 st, Tropical Depression Thirteen strengthened into Tropical Storm Laura, which was the earliest twelfth named Atlantic storm, beating the previous record of Hurricane Luis of 1995 by eight days. On August 19 th, the system became better organized, closed off a low-level circulation, and subsequently the National Hurricane Center began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Thirteen late that evening. The wave traversed the tropical Atlantic for the next several days with little additional organization. Laura began as a large tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa on August 16 th. Above: GOES 16 GeoColor Satellite Image of Hurricane Laura at 2301 UTC (6:01 PM CDT) on August 26, 2020.
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