Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2006, 5:18 PM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 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
- Apr 25, 2006, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 2117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 25, 2:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 2:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 6:00 AM CDT, 11 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 600 AM CDT TUE APR 25 2006 GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182- 201-215-216-261100- 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- 600 AM CDT TUE APR 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST TEXAS...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OUT 60 NAUTICAL MILES. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA WILL COMBINE WITH INCREASED MOISTURE AND PASSING DISTURBANCES TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON. A STORM OR TWO COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS AS THE FRONT CROSSES THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY NOT BE NEEDED. LGE
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.