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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Feb 23, 2016, 2:37 PM CST for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 38 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 23, 2016, 2:37 PM CST (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2016, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
County St. Mary Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 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 22, 3:22 PM CST, 23 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 3:22 PM CST, 23 hours 15 minutes 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 |
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| Feb 23, 5:33 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 4 hr | |
| Feb 23, 9:39 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 51 min | |
| Feb 23, 10:16 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 59 min | |
| Feb 23, 10:49 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 56 min | |
| Feb 23, 11:10 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 35 min | |
| Feb 23, 11:41 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 49 min | |
| Feb 23, 12:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 52 min |
| Feb 23, 12:26 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 34 min | |
| Feb 23, 12:37 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette | 38 min |
| Feb 23, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 30 min |
| Feb 23, 1:51 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:40 PM CST | Low Water Advisory | LCH | 23 hr | |
| Feb 23, 4:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 51 min |
| Feb 23, 4:32 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 43 min |
| Feb 23, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 40 min |
| Feb 23, 8:41 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson | 34 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.