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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 7, 20067 parishes in Louisiana; Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this freeze warning at Dec 7, 2006, 11:11 AM CST for 7 parishes in Louisiana; Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 8, 2006, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 7, 2006, 11:11 AM CST (17:11 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 8, 2006, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 8, 2006, 8:00 AM CST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Tyler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 322 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2006-12-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2006-12-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -71 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 7, 6:32 AM CSTLake Wind AdvisoryLCHLafayette, Saint Martin9 hr

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.