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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2016, 12:30 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 90 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
- Jun 18, 2016, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
County Rapides Parish, LA
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NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 18, 11:30 AM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 11:30 AM CDT, 1 hour before
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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:57 AM CDT, 33 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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| Jun 18, 11:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 93 min |
| Jun 18, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 12:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 94 min | |
| Jun 18, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides, Vernon | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 1:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Cameron | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 66 min |
| Jun 18, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 64 min | |
| Jun 18, 4:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 90 min | |
| Jun 18, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 2 hr | |
| Jun 18, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Jun 18, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Orange | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson | 92 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.