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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Aug 11, 2014, 4:36 PM CDT for Avoyelles Parish, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 24 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
- Aug 11, 2014, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2014, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 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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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 Aug 11, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 318 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2014 GMZ430-432-435-LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215- 216-259>262-122030- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-VERMILION BAY-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- 318 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A HIGH PLAINS COLD FRONT WILL TRAVEL SOUTHWARD...SPILLING THROUGH NORTHERN LOUISIANA JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT...BEFORE REACHING A BATON ROUGE-LAFAYETTE-GALVESTON LINE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. NUMEROUS PRE-FRONTAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE PINEY HILLS AND LAKES REGION BY EARLY THIS EVENING...WORKING THEIR WAY TO THE COAST BY LATE EVENING. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY BRING ABOUT LOCALIZED FLOODING. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS ALSO EXPECTED ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NUMEROUS PRE-FRONTAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FOUND ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...TAPERING OFF BY THE EARLY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-122030- 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- 318 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A HIGH PLAINS COLD FRONT WILL TRAVEL SOUTHWARD...SPILLING THROUGH NORTHERN LOUISIANA JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TUESDAY...BEFORE REACHING A BATON ROUGE-LAFAYETTE-GALVESTON LINE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL SEEP FURTHER SOUTHWARD INTO THE COASTAL WATERS BY TUESDAY EVENING...WHERE IT SUBSEQUENTLY STALLS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FOUND ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS BY TUESDAY MORNING...TAPERING OFF DURING THE AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
In the hours 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 1:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Vermilion | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 1:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 25 min |
| Aug 11, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 25 min |
| Aug 11, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 33 min |
| Aug 11, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Newton | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 6:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Newton | 53 min |
| Aug 11, 6:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.