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Hard Freeze Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this hard freeze warning at Jan 7, 2017, 3:00 AM CST for 10 parishes in Louisiana; 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 7, 2017, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2017, 3:00 AM CST (09:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 7, 2017, 9:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2017, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this hard freeze warning 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 hard freeze warning went out at Jan 6, 11:26 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 11:26 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 6, 5:09 AM CST, 21 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 509 AM CST FRI JAN 6 2017 LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 071200- VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY- CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN- VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN-WEST CAMERON- EAST CAMERON-TYLER-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE-NORTHERN JASPER- NORTHERN NEWTON-SOUTHERN JASPER-SOUTHERN NEWTON- 509 AM CST FRI JAN 6 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE SOME LIGHT RAIN...MIXING WITH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN IN PARTS OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. THE REMAINDER OF THE REGION WILL SEE A COLD LIGHT RAIN. A HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED TONIGHT WITH LOWS IN THE LOW TO MID 20S. WIND CHILLS WILL BE IN THE TEENS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ANOTHER HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING WITH LOWS IN THE LOW TO MID 20S. WIND CHILLS WILL BE IN THE TEENS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-071200- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-VERMILION BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 509 AM CST FRI JAN 6 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG NORTH WINDS WILL BE GUSTING OVER 34 KNOTS...SO A GALE WARNING IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR THE OFFSHORE WATERS...WHILE A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN PLACE EVERYWHERE ELSE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE STRONG NORTH WINDS CONTINUE ON SATURDAY...BEFORE DECREASING BY SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NO SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS EXPECTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 9:35 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 6, 9:43 PM CST | Wind Advisory | LCH | Cameron, Saint Martin | 11 hr |
| Jan 7, 4:18 AM CST | Low Water Advisory | LCH | 5 hr |
Nearby
Hard Freeze Warnings in Louisiana, 2017Hard Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2017Every hard freeze warning in 2017
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.