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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2010, 3:20 PM CDT for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2010, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2010, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
County Newton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 6, 12:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 12:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 455 AM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 GMZ430-432-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216- 071000- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-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- 455 AM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 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 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE IN THE MORNING WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS LINGERING TONIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. ALSO SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BRIEFLY PULSE TO SEVERE LEVELS WITH LOCALLIZED STRONG DOWNRUSH WINDS THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SIMILAR CONDTIONS ON SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO AGAIN RISE ABOVE SEASONAL NORMS BEGINNING ON SUNDAY WITH A REDUCTION IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. HEAT THRESHOLDS CLOSE TO ADVISORY CRITERIA CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ALTHOUGH ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED, THERE MAY BE A NEED FOR FRESH POST STORM DAMAGE REPORTS. GMZ435-450-452-455-470-472-475-071000- VERMILION BAY- 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- 455 AM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT WINDS AND LOW SEAS WILL CONTINUE. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SIMILAR CONDTIONS ON SATURDAY ON THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE. BEGINNING ON SUNDAY ONLY WIDELY SCATTERED COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. SWEENEY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 6, 10:06 AM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 320 PM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 TXZ181-182-062115- NEWTON TX-JASPER TX- 320 PM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NEWTON AND EASTERN JASPER COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT... AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FARRSVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STRINGTOWN BY 330 PM... NEWTON AND JAMESTOWN BY 415 PM... ROGANVILLE BY 430 PM... THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...PEA TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH...WHICH COULD DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3071 9363 3078 9396 3106 9381 3100 9357 SHAMBURGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 12:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 4:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Newton | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin | 66 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.