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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Aug 31, 2012, 2:05 AM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 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
- Aug 31, 2012, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
County Rapides Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 60 min |
| Aug 31, 5:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Rapides | 108 min |
| Aug 31, 7:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 105 min |
| Aug 31, 8:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 25 min |
| Aug 31, 12:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Allen | 117 min |
| Aug 31, 2:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 3 hr |
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.