FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY: Potential for severe weather this evening and overnight

There will be some strong to potentially severe weather this evening and overnight

FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY: Potential for severe weather this evening and overnight

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LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Today is First Alert Weather Day. There is potential for severe weather during the evening and overnight tonight. All forms of severe weather are possible from the early evening to the early morning hours on Thursday. That includes hail, tornadoes, flash flooding, and damaging winds. Now is the time to download the KPLC 7Stormteam weather app so you will be alerted if there is severe weather in your area.

During the day, the winds will be gradually increasing, and the clouds will thicken up. There could be a few showers as well. At times, there may be a little sunshine, which would help the storms later this evening.

As the kids try to go trick-or-treating, the sooner they go, the better. The rain will be arriving later after sunset along with a few storms. If there are storms in the area, I would try to keep the kids inside. Check the radar before you head out the door.

Overnight is when the stronger storms will arrive. This is when everyone will need to be inside ahead of the potential severe weather. There will be heavy rain and some storms could produce tornadoes. Make sure to stay away from windows and inside as the weather passes. Keep your alerts turned on, on your weather app to stay up to date on the storms.

Once that cold front passes Wednesday night, it will push all of the rain and clouds away from Southwest Louisiana. There could be a few showers and maybe a storm or two in the morning, but all of the rain will move out by lunchtime at the latest. The temperature will be much cooler as well. Highs will be in the lower 70s.

Then Friday and through the weekend, it will go back to being nice and sunny with no chance of rain! It will be perfect fall weather where it is cool in the morning, then warms up in the afternoon. As mentioned, it will be sunny with no rain around, so any outdoor plans should be good to go!

Later, Sunday there could be a few clouds that build their way back up. Another cold front will be on its way. The rain chances will stay at 20% Sunday but will increase on Monday and Tuesday. It is unknown if there will be severe weather with this system next week since it is too far out.