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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 16, 2006Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 16, 2006, 8:49 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 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
Jan 16, 2006, 8:49 PM CST (02:49 UTC)
Expired
Jan 16, 2006, 9:45 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Vernon Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2006-01-17Temperature 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2006-01-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 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
546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 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
Jan 16, 10:27 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningLCH63 min
Jan 16, 11:29 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningLCH61 min
Jan 17, 5:28 AM CSTLake Wind AdvisoryLCHAllen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more13 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.