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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT for Acadia Parish, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 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 6, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2012, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 6, 3:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 442 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 071100- 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- 442 AM CDT WED JUN 6 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 A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL MOVE SOUTHWEST TOWARD THE COAST. MEANWHILE...A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE IN PLACE. THE COMBINATION OF THE TWO...WILL ALLOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. DUE TO EXPECTED HIGH INSTABILITY...A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME RATHER STRONG...WITH GUSTY DOWN-BURST WINDS...HAIL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. ALSO...WITH THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT AND EXPECTED SLOW MOVEMENT...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH SOME STREET FLOODING IF THE STORMS MOVE OVER URBAN AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A WEAKNESS IN THE UPPER LEVELS...COMBINED WITH A WARM AND MOIST AIR MASS...WITH ALLOW FOR A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-071100- 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- 442 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST AND OVER COASTAL LAKES AND BAYS. STRONG WIND GUSTS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO WATER LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. LOCALLY HIGHER WINDS AND SEAS...ALONG WITH OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT CLOUD TO WATER LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. RUA
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 11:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 53 min |
| 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, 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 |
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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.