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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 14, 2016Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2016, 4:36 PM CDT for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: May 14, 2016, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

County Tyler County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 1121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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
May 14, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Tyler	44 min
May 14, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper	34 min
May 14, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	23 min
May 14, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	42 min
May 14, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	45 min
May 14, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	32 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.