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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 8, 2011St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2011, 4:42 PM CDT for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 63 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: Jun 8, 2011, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2011, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

County St. Mary Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Jun 8, 2:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 5:05 AM CDT, 11 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 4:22 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
422 PM CDT WED JUN 08 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0412 PM     HAIL             PARKS                   30.22N 91.83W
06/08/2011  E0.25 INCH       ST. MARTIN         LA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            2 REPORTS FROM KATC RELAYED VIA FACEBOOK.

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MOGGED

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:42 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	64 min
Jun 8, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Landry	55 min
Jun 8, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		53 min
Jun 8, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, St. Mary	65 min
Jun 8, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	67 min
Jun 8, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	58 min
Jun 8, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	55 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Louisiana, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.