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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 1, 2006, 8:33 PM CST for Calcasieu 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
- Feb 1, 2006, 8:33 PM CST (02:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2006, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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 Feb 1, 8:30 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 8:30 PM CST, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 1, 4:24 AM CST, 16 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 424 AM CST WED FEB 1 2006 GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182- 201-215-216-021030- 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- 424 AM CST WED FEB 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF GM...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT WILL BRING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY OVERALL...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE IN CONTROL WITH LIMITED CHANCES FOR RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 61 min |
| Feb 1, 7:12 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| Feb 1, 7:22 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 min | |
| Feb 1, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 59 min |
| Feb 1, 8:13 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 62 min | |
| Feb 1, 8:46 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 59 min | |
| Feb 1, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 55 min |
| Feb 1, 10:36 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 54 min | |
| Feb 1, 11:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia | 62 min |
| Feb 1, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 56 min |
| Feb 1, 11:28 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 62 min | |
| Feb 2, 12:32 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 118 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.