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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Apr 21, 2016, 10:43 AM CDT for Hardin County, Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- Apr 21, 2016, 10:43 AM CDT (15:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2016, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Apr 21, 9:56 AM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 9:56 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 21, 10:43 AM CDT, 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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| Apr 20, 8:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Vernon | 3 days |
| Apr 20, 9:00 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 8 days |
| Apr 20, 9:31 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 54 hr |
| Apr 20, 9:31 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 57 hr |
| Apr 20, 9:31 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 4 days |
| Apr 21, 12:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Cameron | 44 min |
| Apr 21, 12:57 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 48 min | |
| Apr 21, 1:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 50 min |
| Apr 21, 1:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 50 min | |
| Apr 21, 1:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Cameron | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 2:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| Apr 21, 2:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Cameron | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 3:31 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 59 min | |
| Apr 21, 4:25 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 65 min | |
| Apr 21, 12:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Vernon | 59 min |
| Apr 21, 12:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Vernon | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 12:49 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 41 min | |
| Apr 21, 1:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vernon | 55 min |
| Apr 21, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 45 min | |
| Apr 21, 1:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Vermilion | 39 min |
| Apr 21, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 57 min | |
| Apr 21, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 58 min | |
| Apr 20, 8:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 4 days |
| Apr 21, 11:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Jasper, Orange | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Orange | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 12:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 3 days |
| Apr 21, 3:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Orange | 24 hr |
Nearby
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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.