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Lake Wind Advisory 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this lake wind advisory at Dec 8, 2005, 7:09 AM CST for Lafayette Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana; Hardin County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 8, 2005, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 8, 2005, 7:09 AM CST (13:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 8, 2005, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2005, 1:07 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 51 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake wind advisory went out at Dec 8, 3:43 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 3:43 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 8, 5:13 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 513 AM CST THU DEC 8 2005 GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182- 201-215-216-091115- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON, LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA TO CAMERON, LA EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM-VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD- ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY-CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA- LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN-CAMERON-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY- LOWER ST. MARTIN-TYLER-JASPER-NEWTON-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE- 513 AM CST THU DEC 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF GM...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MODIFIED ARCTIC AIR WILL USHER IN COLDER TEMPERATURES FROM THE WEST. RAIN SHOULD END WILL BEFORE TEMPERATURES FALL BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT. A LAKE WIND ADVISORY MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 11
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 1:37 PM CST | Freeze Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon | 15 hr |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in Louisiana, 2005Lake Wind Advisories in Texas, 2005Every lake wind advisory in 2005
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.