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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 2, 2005Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2005, 6:15 AM CDT for Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2005, 6:15 AM CDT (11:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2005, 7:02 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 328 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 2, 3:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 5:35 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
535 AM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005

GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-
041100-
ACADIA-ALLEN-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-CALCASIEU-CAMERON-EVANGELINE-
HARDIN-IBERIA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-LAFAYETTE-
LOWER ST. MARTIN-NEWTON-ORANGE-RAPIDES-ST. LANDRY-ST. MARY-TYLER-
UPPER ST. MARTIN-VERMILION-VERNON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WOODVILLE...PORT ARTHUR...ORANGE...
NEWTON...KOUNTZE...JASPER...BEAUMONT...OBERLIN...ABBEVILLE...
VILLE PLATTE...OPELOUSAS...NEW IBERIA...MORGAN CITY...MARKSVILLE...
LEESVILLE...LAKE CHARLES...LAFAYETTE...JENNINGS...DERIDDER...
CROWLEY...CAMERON AND ALEXANDRIA

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO
PRODUCE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING ACROSS
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. LOCALIZED FLOODING AND DAMAGING
WINDS WILL BE THE BIGGEST WEATHER THREAT TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
FOR MONDAY...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS
SOUTHEAST TEXAS...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED FURTHER EAST
ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY WITH THE
APPROACH OF A TROPICAL DISTURBANCE CURRENTLY OVER THE NORTHWEST
CARIBBEAN.

BY THURSDAY INTO NEXT WEEKEND...EXPECT THE WEATHER PATTERN TO RETURN
TO NORMAL...WITH SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED. AT THIS TIME...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS
EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS, HAM RADIO OPERATORS, AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...
MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.

DML

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 9:48 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		57 min
Jul 2, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	66 min
Jul 2, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline, Rapides	62 min
Jul 2, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	65 min
Jul 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Saint Landry	65 min
Jul 2, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		59 min

Nearby

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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.