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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this areal flood warning at Feb 1, 2012, 10:41 AM CST for Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 36 hr. 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 1, 2012, 10:41 AM CST (16:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2012, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Evangeline Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 717 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 1, 10:33 AM CST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 10:33 AM CST, 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 422 AM CST WED FEB 1 2012 LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 021030- VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY- CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN- VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN-WEST CAMERON- EAST CAMERON-TYLER-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE-NORTHERN JASPER- NORTHERN NEWTON-SOUTHERN JASPER-SOUTHERN NEWTON- 422 AM CST WED FEB 1 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF SHOWERS TODAY WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE FROM RAIN AND CLOUD COVER. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT LOOKS TO MOVE THROUGH ON SATURDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL START ON FRIDAY AND INCREASE INTO SATURDAY BEFORE TAPERING OFF BEHIND THE FRONT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-021030- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-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 FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 422 AM CST WED FEB 1 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AREAS OF FOG WILL LIMIT VISIBILITY AT TIMES THIS MORNING. VISIBILITY SHOULD REMAIN ABOVE A MILE. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AREAS OF FOG WILL AGAIN DEVELOP OVER THE COASTAL WATERS TOMORROW MORNING. STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COASTAL WATERS ON SATURDAY WITH WINDS AND SEAS INCREASING. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 1, 7:51 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 12:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 32 min |
| Feb 1, 12:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 36 min |
| Feb 1, 1:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 34 min |
| Feb 1, 2:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Saint Landry | 29 min |
| Feb 1, 6:53 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 3 hr | |
| Feb 1, 7:13 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 12 days |
| Feb 1, 10:27 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 26 hr | |
| Feb 1, 12:52 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 113 min |
| Feb 1, 12:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 65 min | |
| Feb 1, 2:12 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 2 hr | |
| Feb 1, 2:31 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Saint Landry | 119 min |
| Feb 1, 3:40 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 2 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2012Every areal flood warning in 2012
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.