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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 25, 2012, 7:19 PM CST for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 56 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
- Jan 25, 2012, 7:19 PM CST (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2012, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2:08 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
475
WUUS54 KLCH 260119
SVRLCH
LAC009-055-097-099-260215-
/O.NEW.KLCH.SV.W.0013.120126T0119Z-120126T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
719 PM CST WED JAN 25 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
AVOYELLES PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...SIMMESPORT...MOREAUVILLE...MARKSVILLE...EFFIE...
BORDELONVILLE...
ST. LANDRY PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...MORROW...BAYOU CURRENT...PALMETTO...OPELOUSAS...
MELVILLE...LEONVILLE...KROTZ SPRINGS...ARNAUDVILLE...
LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...SCOTT...LAFAYETTE...CARENCRO...
NORTHWESTERN ST. MARTIN PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES...CATAHOULA...BREAUX BRIDGE...WHISKEY BAY...
* UNTIL 815 PM CST
* AT 718 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORROW TO 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF SCOTT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
HESSMER...MORROW...WASHINGTON AND SUNSET BY 725 PM CST...
EFFIE...GOUDEAU...COTTONPORT AND BIG CANE BY 730 PM CST...
MANSURA AND MARKSVILLE BY 735 PM CST...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. STAY INDOORS...AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA.
&&
PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT
337-477-5285 EXTENSION 1.
LAT...LON 3123 9199 3130 9191 3119 9167 3114 9171
3105 9171 3098 9180 3085 9181 3071 9173
3051 9173 3043 9163 3037 9164 3026 9159
3023 9147 3012 9146 3013 9217 3029 9214
3033 9216 3103 9214 3130 9217 3133 9200
TIME...MOT...LOC 0118Z 247DEG 26KT 3096 9215 3062 9209
3033 9211
$$
K. KUYPERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 6:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 2 more | 61 min |
| Jan 25, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 35 min |
| Jan 25, 6:57 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| Jan 25, 7:34 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin | 56 min |
| Jan 25, 7:59 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 2 hr | |
| Jan 25, 8:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Landry | 60 min |
| Jan 25, 10:41 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 64 min |
| Jan 26, 2:24 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 22 hr | |
| Jan 26, 6:13 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 38 hr |
| Jan 26, 10:15 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 10 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.