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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2016, 3:18 PM CDT for 6 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 87 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
- Aug 25, 2016, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 2543 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin and 2 more | 95 min |
| Aug 25, 2:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 2:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry | 86 min |
| Aug 25, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 53 min |
| Aug 25, 4:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides | 119 min |
| Aug 25, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu | 42 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Louisiana, 2016Every 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.