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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jan 17, 2012, 9:08 AM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 7 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 17, 2012, 9:08 AM CST (15:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2012, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 7 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
County Vernon Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jan 17, 5:38 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 5:38 AM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 4:51 AM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 451 AM CST TUE JAN 17 2012 GMZ430-432-LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216- 259>262-181100- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-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- 451 AM CST TUE JAN 17 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS MORNING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. RAIN SHOULD BE ENDING FROM THE NORTHWEST BY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A WARMING TREND WILL INITIATE BY THURSDAY. RAIN CHANCES TOWARDS THE END OF THE WEEK AS A WEAK PACIFIC SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ435-450-452-455-470-472-475-181100- 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- 451 AM CST TUE JAN 17 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FOR GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NORTHERLY WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO DIMINISH LATE WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 11
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 9:08 AM CST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 908 AM CST TUE JAN 17 2012 LAZ027-171515- VERNON LA- 908 AM CST TUE JAN 17 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR VERNON PARISH UNTIL 915 AM CST... AT 904 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SLAGLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LACAMP BY 915 AM... FUNNEL CLOUDS MAY BE NOTICED WITH THIS STORM AND THIS STORM IS DEVELOPING IN AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LAT...LON 3128 9291 3114 9285 3108 9310 3119 9318 TINGLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 5:32 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 27 hr | |
| Jan 17, 9:19 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 26 min |
| Jan 17, 9:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 13 min |
| Jan 17, 9:57 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 10:18 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 42 min |
| Jan 17, 11:16 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 29 min |
| Jan 17, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 44 min |
| Jan 17, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 37 min |
| Jan 17, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 37 min |
| Jan 17, 3:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 17 min |
| Jan 17, 5:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Evangeline | 41 min |
| Jan 17, 1:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 50 min |
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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.