A line of severe weather moving across Louisiana could bring damaging winds, hail and isolated tornadoes to Lafayette.
Lafayette is at enhanced risk for severe weather Wednesday afternoon into the evening, according to the National Weather Service in Lake Charles. An enhanced risk is a 3 out of 5 on the severe weather scale.
A main line of storms will move through the area at about 5 p.m., said weather service meteorologist Stacey Demson. It will start to taper off between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Ahead of the main line, there is a potential for isolated cells that could become severe. Those cells are harder to forecast, Demson said. Those isolated cells and severe weather could start at about 4 p.m.
Lafayette school closures: Weather prompts Acadiana early dismissals
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Lafayette weather: severe storms bring tornado risk, damaging winds
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Will Acadiana students have school Wednesday after winter storm? Leigh Guidry, Lafayette Daily Advertiser
Between a hard freeze warning still in effect, extremely low temperatures expected to continue and rolling blackouts Tuesday, local school district officials called off classes for Wednesday.
For some, the timing was lucky, as Wednesday already was a planned day off as part of the Mardi Gras break for half of the districts in the eight-parish Acadiana region. Students in Evangline, St. Mary, Vermilion and Iberia parishes are expected to return to schools Thursday as scheduled.
But other school systems in the area Acadia, Lafayette, St. Landry and St. Martin parishes had shortened the break to two days after starting the fall semester late due to the COVID-19 pandemic and hurricanes.