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Lake Wind Advisory 16, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this lake wind advisory at Mar 19, 2012, 3:42 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas; 17 parishes in Louisiana; Columbia County, Lafayette County, Union County, Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 20, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2012, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 20, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2012, 2:53 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
All 24 counties
Columbia County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Harrison County, TX, Panola County, TX, Sabine County, TX, Shelby County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake wind advisory went out at Mar 19, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
340 PM CDT MON MAR 19 2012
.DISCUSSION...
BAND OF CONVECTION ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS DRIFTING EAST THIS
AFTERNOON. EXPECTING INCREASED COVERAGE ACROSS THE FOUR STATE
REGION LATER THIS EVENING AS UPPER-LEVEL LOW DIGS SOUTH FROM THE
ROCKIES...PARKS ACROSS OKLAHOMA...AND TAPS INTO ABUNDANT PACIFIC
MOISTURE.
UPPER-LEVEL DIFFLUENCE BETWEEN THE LOW ACROSS TEXAS AND A RIDGE
ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST TO GENERATE SIGNIFICANT RAIN EVENT ACROSS THE
REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. WENT AHEAD AND EXPANDED FLASH FLOOD
WATCH TO COVER THE ENTIRE FOUR STATE REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINFALL...THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOS EXIST FROM
TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY.
THE INITIAL PUSH OF CONVECTION TO BEGIN THIS EVENING ACROSS EAST
TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AS THE BAND OF CONVECTION ACROSS
NORTH TEXAS SLIDES EAST. BECAUSE OF THE SLOW PROGRESSION OF THE
SYSTEM...MANY AREAS WILL EXPERIENCE REPEATED BOUTS OF HEAVY
RAINFALL. BY TUESDAY EVENING...ANOTHER BAND OF CONVECTION TO
DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA...CONTINUING
THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
SHOULD BEGIN TO SEE IMPROVING CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY AS
THE UPPER-LOW LIFTS NORTHEAST. HOWEVER...LINGERING SURFACE
BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTHERN GULF COAST MAY ALLOW FOR ISOLATED
CONVECTION ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ZONES LATE INTO THE WEEK.
ALSO EXTENDED THE LAKE WIND ADVISORY ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST
TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA THROUGH 10 PM TONIGHT.
ON TUESDAY...WITH ENHANCE PRESSURE GRADIENT EXPECTED ACROSS
SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...WENT AHEAD AND ISSUED
A SECOND LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS. /05/
&&
.AVIATION...
VFR CIGS ARE PREVALENT AREAWIDE THIS AFTERNOON...AND SHOULD REMAIN
SO THROUGH EARLY/MID EVENING...BEFORE MVFR CIGS DEVELOP AND SPREAD N
INTO E TX/N LA S OF I-20 BETWEEN 03-06Z...AND INTO EXTREME NE TX/SE
OK/SW AR BETWEEN 06-09Z. CIGS MAY LOWER TO AROUND 1.5KFT OVER NCNTRL
LA/SCNTRL AR...BUT STRONG WINDS 30-50KTS BETWEEN 2.5-5KFT WILL LIMIT
THE LOWERING OF THE STRATUS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. COULD SEE
SCT CONVECTION DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING OVER EXTREME NE
TX/SE OK/ADJACENT SW AR AND SPREAD NNE...WHICH COULD AFFECT THE TYR
AND TXK TERMINALS IN TIME...BUT WILL AMEND AS NECESSARY. A NE TO SW
LINE OF CONVECTION ONGOING ATTM ACROSS NE OK INTO NCNTRL AND SW TX
WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY SHIFT E THIS EVENING...WITH ADDITIONAL
INTENSIFICATION LIKELY AS THEY BEGIN TO ACCELERATE E INTO SE
OK/ECNTRL TX BY 12Z TUESDAY. THUS...CIGS/VSBYS WILL DETERIORATE IN
+TSRA AT TYR AROUND 12Z...GGG AROUND 15-18Z...AND SHV BETWEEN
18-21Z. SCT CONVECTION MAY DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE LINE TUESDAY
AFTERNOON ACROSS SCNTRL AR/NCNTRL LA...ALTHOUGH THE LINE OF +TSRA
SHOULD BECOME STATIONARY TUESDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING OVER EXTREME SE
OK/SW AR/EXTREME E TX/WRN LA...THUS PRODUCING FLOODING RAINFALL. SSE
WINDS 13-18KTS...WITH GUSTS TO 30KTS THIS AFTERNOON...WILL DIMINISH
SLIGHTLY TO 10-15KTS...WITH GUSTS TO 20KTS...AFTER 00Z ESPECIALLY
OVER E TX/NW LA. /15/
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV 65 76 57 69 48 / 50 80 80 70 40
MLU 63 84 63 75 51 / 20 50 50 70 60
DEQ 62 72 52 67 44 / 100 100 70 70 40
TXK 64 75 55 67 48 / 80 80 80 70 40
ELD 62 81 58 71 47 / 40 80 70 70 60
TYR 63 68 49 66 50 / 100 100 50 50 20
GGG 66 74 50 67 48 / 80 100 60 50 20
LFK 66 75 52 67 46 / 50 100 60 50 20
&&
.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FROM NOON TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: ARZ071>073.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: ARZ061-071>073.
LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: ARZ050-051-059-060-070.
LA...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: LAZ001.
LAKE WIND ADVISORY FROM NOON TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022.
LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: LAZ002>006-010>014-017>022.
OK...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: OKZ077.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: OKZ077.
TX...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES:
TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167.
LAKE WIND ADVISORY FROM NOON TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ138-151-153-167.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ152-153-165>167.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>151.
&&
05/15/15Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 19, 11:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:54 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 58 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus | 7 days |
| Mar 19, 10:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Titus | 7 days |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in Louisiana, 2012Lake Wind Advisories in Texas, 2012Lake Wind Advisories in Arkansas, 2012Every lake wind advisory 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.