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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Feb 22, 2013, 7:21 PM CST for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 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
- Feb 22, 2013, 7:21 PM CST (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2013, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
County St. Mary Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
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 Feb 22, 5:48 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 5:48 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 600 AM CST FRI FEB 22 2013 LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 231200- 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- 600 AM CST FRI FEB 22 2013 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 THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS ACROSS ALL BUT THE LAKES AREA OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT STALLS JUST OFF THE COAST. RAINFALL WILL BE LIGHT...WITH AMOUNTS AVERAGING AROUND ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY RAIN CHANCES WILL DIMINISH BRIEFLY SATURDAY...THEN INCREASE AGAIN ON SUNDAY AS ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE AREA. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT...WITH LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING ALONG IT. THIS WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA...ALTHOUGH SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-231200- 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- 600 AM CST FRI FEB 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL STALL OVER THE COASTAL WATERS TODAY...KEEPING A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS OVER THE AREA. IN ADDITION...AREAS OF FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT...WITH ISOLATED VISIBILITIES LESS THAN ONE MILE. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ANOTHER FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS MONDAY...WITH STRONG NORTHWESTERLY WINDS EXPECTED IN ITS WAKE...AND SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED. WINDS AND SEAS WILL SUBSIDE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY...WITH NORTHWEST FLOW REDEVELOPING AND STRENGTHENING AGAIN LATE IN THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 24
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 22, 2:58 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:43 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 62 min | |
| Feb 22, 6:56 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 64 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.