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Lake Wind Advisory 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 8, 20069 parishes in Louisiana; Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this lake wind advisory at Mar 8, 2006, 8:05 PM CST for 9 parishes in Louisiana; Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 10, 2006, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 2006, 8:05 PM CST (02:05 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 10, 2006, 9:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 9, 2006, 12:03 PM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

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

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 Mar 8, 2:48 PM CST, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 2:48 PM CST, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 8, 5:45 AM CST, 14 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 2:38 PM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 10:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	67 min
Mar 9, 12:03 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more	6 hr
Mar 9, 10:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton	67 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.