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Lake Wind Advisory 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this lake wind advisory at Oct 17, 2007, 12:32 PM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 2007, 12:32 PM CDT (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
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 17:32 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, 5.5 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
- 390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 17, 11:37 AM CDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 11:37 AM CDT, 55 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 554 AM CDT WED OCT 17 2007 GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182- 201-215-216-181100- 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- 554 AM CDT WED OCT 17 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA IS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM VILLAGE MILLS TEXAS TO OPELOUSAS LOUISIANA. LARGE HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE RISK AREA. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD END BY EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 17, 10:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 8:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 49 hr |
| Oct 17, 8:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 35 hr |
| Oct 17, 1:42 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | LCH | 17 hr | |
| Oct 17, 1:42 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | LCH | Saint Martin | 17 hr |
| Oct 17, 10:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 23 min |
| Oct 17, 10:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 36 min |
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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.