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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 14, 2013Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Apr 14, 2013, 2:21 AM CDT for Saint Landry 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: Apr 14, 2013, 2:21 AM CDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2013, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

County Saint Landry Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		25 min
Apr 13, 10:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	St. Mary	49 min
Apr 13, 11:06 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		39 min
Apr 13, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	51 min
Apr 13, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	St. Mary	52 min
Apr 14, 12:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	38 min
Apr 14, 12:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	51 min
Apr 14, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia	63 min
Apr 14, 12:59 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	LCH		6 hr
Apr 14, 1:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion	116 min
Apr 14, 3:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin and 1 more	116 min
Apr 14, 7:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Avoyelles, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin	3 hr
Apr 14, 12:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Vermilion	24 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.