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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 5, 2012Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2012, 11:22 PM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 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 5, 2012, 11:22 PM CDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2012, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

County Avoyelles Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 908 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 5, 10:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 10:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 8:27 AM CDT, 14 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 11:22 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 6, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	49 min
Jun 6, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	50 min
Jun 6, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard	56 min
Jun 6, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	56 min
Jun 6, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	30 min
Jun 6, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	34 min
Jun 6, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion	54 min
Jun 6, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vermilion	60 min
Jun 6, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia, Cameron, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Vermilion	67 min
Jun 6, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette	60 min
Jun 6, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	67 min
Jun 6, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper	63 min
Jun 6, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	27 min
Jun 6, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	60 min

Nearby

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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.