Alert archive / Louisiana / Hard Freeze Warnings in 2012
Hard Freeze Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this hard freeze warning at Feb 11, 2012, 3:57 AM CST for 9 parishes in Louisiana; 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 12, 2012, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 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 11, 2012, 3:57 AM CST (09:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2012, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2012, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this hard 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 hard freeze warning went out at Feb 10, 11:38 PM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 11:38 PM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 10, 5:03 AM CST, 22 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 503 AM CST FRI FEB 10 2012 GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-111100- 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- 503 AM CST FRI FEB 10 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL BRING A SHIFT TO NORTHERLY WINDS AROUND SUNDOWN. THESE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE THROUGH THE NIGHT...REACHING SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CRITERIA BY 3 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL VEER TO THE SOUTHEAST BY MONDAY. LOW WATER CONDITIONS ON SATURDAY WILL TRANSITION TO TIDES ABOVE NORMAL ON MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 111100- 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- 503 AM CST FRI FEB 10 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 REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS ON AREA RIVER FLOODING. WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AS A FRONTAL WAVE DEVELOPS OFF THE TEXAS COAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING NORTH OF THE HIGHWAY 190 CORRIDOR. A LIGHT FREEZE ELSEWHERE. ADDITIONAL RAIN IS EXPECTED MONDAY AND AGAIN ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. SWEENEY
Nearby
Hard Freeze Warnings in Louisiana, 2012Hard Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2012Every hard freeze 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.