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Example of
Severe Weather Climatology

Lake Charles, LA, County Warning Area

This web page provides as an example of how a severe weather climatology can be placed in web format. It was developed from tornado data for the Lake Charles, LA, county/parish warning area. Not all data are currently shown in this example.

The following examples of severe weather statistics are available for review from this web page:

  • Tornado

  • F-Scale Statistics by Year and Period of Record
  • Path Length Statistics by Year and Period of Record
  • Path Width Statistics by Year and Period of Record
  • Monthly Distribution of the Number of Tornadoes, the Number of F2 or greater Tornadoes, and the Number of Killer Tornadoes
  • Hourly Distribution of the Number of Tornadoes, the Number of F2 or greater Tornadoes, and the Number of Killer Tornadoes (period of record)
  • Hourly Distribution of the Number of Tornadoes, the Number of F2 or greater Tornadoes, and the Number of Killer Tornadoes (by month)


  • Hail

  • Wind

    • For graphical presentation of these tabular data, see the Lake Charles severe weather web page.

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    Last updated on 6/15/98