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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this wind advisory at Jan 20, 2012, 2:19 PM CST for Cameron Parish, Lafayette Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 20, 2012, 2:19 PM CST (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Cameron Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936 WWUS74 KLCH 202019 NPWLCH URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 219 PM CST FRI JAN 20 2012 ...GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS FOR REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON... .BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS ARE ALLOWING FOR CONVECTIVE MIXING OF STRONGER WINDS ALOFT TO THE SURFACE. GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE THE RESULT. WINDS WILL DECREASE WITH SETTING OF THE SUN. LAZ041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ215-216-210000- /O.NEW.KLCH.WI.Y.0003.120120T2019Z-120121T0000Z/ CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN- VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN-WEST CAMERON- EAST CAMERON-JEFFERSON-ORANGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAKE CHARLES...SULPHUR...JENNINGS... WELSH...LAKE ARTHUR...CROWLEY...RAYNE...CHURCH POINT... LAFAYETTE...BREAUX BRIDGE...ST. MARTINVILLE...ABBEVILLE... KAPLAN...NEW IBERIA...MORGAN CITY...FRANKLIN...PATTERSON... BERWICK...BAYOU VISTA...STEPHENSVILLE...HACKBERRY...HOLLY BEACH... CAMERON...GRAND CHENIER...BEAUMONT...PORT ARTHUR...ORANGE... VIDOR...BRIDGE CITY 219 PM CST FRI JAN 20 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 34 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. WINDS OVER LOCAL WATERWAYS COULD BE 5 MPH HIGHER THAN OVER LAND. SMALL BOATS WILL BE ESPECIALLY PRONE TO CAPSIZING. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 2:26 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 5 hr | |
| Jan 20, 1:32 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 11 hr | |
| Jan 20, 12:15 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 21 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.