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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 12, 2010Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Oct 12, 2010, 6:13 PM CDT for Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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
Oct 12, 2010, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
Oct 12, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA

County Saint Martin Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 295 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2010-10-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2010-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-322 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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
Oct 11, 7:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAllen45 min
Oct 11, 8:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAvoyelles57 min
Oct 11, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard38 min
Oct 11, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard, Vernon49 min
Oct 12, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Rapides, Vernon54 min
Oct 12, 3:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAllen61 min
Oct 12, 3:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHCalcasieu46 min
Oct 12, 4:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAcadia47 min
Oct 12, 4:27 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH63 min
Oct 12, 4:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHCalcasieu38 min
Oct 12, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHJefferson Davis46 min
Oct 12, 5:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHLafayette46 min
Oct 12, 5:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHCameron65 min
Oct 11, 7:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHNewton32 min
Oct 11, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper, Newton33 min
Oct 11, 10:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHTyler54 min
Oct 11, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHJasper, Tyler49 min
Oct 11, 11:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin29 min
Oct 12, 12:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin, Orange55 min
Oct 12, 4:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHJefferson24 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.