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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this heat advisory at Jun 17, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana; 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 18, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2016, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 18, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2016, 3:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 17, 11:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 11:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
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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.