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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

February 15, 2016Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Feb 15, 2016, 3:46 AM CST for Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 44 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, 3:46 AM CST (09:46 UTC)
Expired: Feb 15, 2016, 4:30 AM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

County Saint Martin Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 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

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What forecasters said that day

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 15, 3:13 AM CST, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 3:13 AM CST, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 14, 4:17 AM CST, 23 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 15, 2:45 AM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Feb 15, 3:46 AM CST, 0 minutes before

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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
Feb 15, 2:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia	60 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.