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Tropical Storm Warning 1009, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tropical storm warning at Aug 27, 2012, 4:44 AM CDT for 10 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 3 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2012, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2012, 10:19 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 1114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tropical storm warning 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 tropical storm warning went out at Aug 26, 11:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 11:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 4:44 AM CDT | Hurricane Watch | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Martin | 61 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:44 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Cameron, Evangeline, Rapides, Vernon | 61 hr |
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Tropical Storm Warnings in Louisiana, 2012Every tropical storm warning in 2012
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.