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Lake Wind Advisory 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 19, 2008Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this lake wind advisory at Jan 19, 2008, 4:33 AM CST for Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 11 hr.

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The facts

Issued
Jan 19, 2008, 4:33 AM CST (10:33 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 2008, 4:00 PM CST
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA

County Saint Martin Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2008-01-19Temperature 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2008-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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 19, 5:21 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningLCH54 min
Jan 19, 10:31 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningLCHLafayette, Vermilion10 hr
Jan 19, 10:25 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson10 hr

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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.