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Freeze Warning 14, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this freeze warning at Feb 2, 2011, 4:25 AM CST for Lafayette Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Feb 2, 2011, 10:00 PM CST. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2011, 4:25 AM CST (10:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 2, 2011, 10:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2011, 3:46 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Feb 1, 11:30 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 11:30 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 4:25 AM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:22 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more | 14 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:22 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | LCH | Saint Martin | 45 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.