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Flood Watch 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flood watch at Jul 6, 2010, 8:27 AM CDT for 5 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 34 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2010, 8:27 AM CDT (13:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2010, 6:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jul 6, 6:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 6:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 5, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 112 min | |
| Jul 5, 10:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 61 min | |
| Jul 5, 11:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 87 min | |
| Jul 5, 11:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 82 min | |
| Jul 6, 12:59 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 2 hr | |
| Jul 6, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 88 min | |
| Jul 6, 4:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:23 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 56 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.