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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2013, 6:21 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 39 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
- Jul 18, 2013, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 1499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 37 min |
| Jul 17, 7:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 36 min |
| Jul 17, 7:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 29 min |
| Jul 17, 8:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 1:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette | 43 min |
| Jul 18, 1:19 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 56 min | |
| Jul 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 33 min |
| Jul 18, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Beauregard | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 36 min |
| Jul 18, 6:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Beauregard | 66 min |
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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.