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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Feb 15, 2016, 2:45 AM CST for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 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 15, 2016, 2:45 AM CST (08:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2016, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
County Acadia Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 14, 11:41 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 11:41 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 15, 2:45 AM CST, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 15, 3:46 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 44 min |
| Feb 15, 5:39 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 51 min |
| Feb 15, 7:42 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 63 min |
| Feb 15, 8:45 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 30 min |
| Feb 15, 8:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 61 min |
| Feb 15, 9:13 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 62 min |
| Feb 15, 9:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 54 min |
| Feb 15, 10:11 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 34 min |
| Feb 15, 10:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 17 min |
| Feb 15, 10:41 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Evangeline | 64 min |
| Feb 15, 11:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 58 min |
| Feb 15, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 11:57 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 63 min |
| Feb 15, 12:15 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vernon | 45 min |
| Feb 15, 12:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Cameron | 41 min |
| Feb 15, 12:36 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 39 min | |
| Feb 15, 12:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 56 min |
| Feb 15, 1:03 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline | 42 min |
| Feb 15, 1:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 1:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 24 min |
| Feb 15, 1:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 52 min |
| Feb 15, 1:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 62 min |
| Feb 15, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 45 min |
| Feb 15, 2:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Vermilion | 54 min |
| Feb 15, 3:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette | 62 min |
| Feb 15, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin | 38 min |
| Feb 15, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 23 min |
| Feb 15, 4:22 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 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.