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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

July 9, 2017Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2017, 3:04 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 41 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
Jul 9, 2017, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2017, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 26 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2017-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1277 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2017-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1277 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 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 office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 7:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHCalcasieu51 min
Jul 8, 7:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHCalcasieu48 min
Jul 8, 8:04 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLCHCalcasieu116 min
Jul 9, 10:01 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH59 min
Jul 9, 2:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHEvangeline40 min
Jul 9, 2:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAvoyelles47 min
Jul 9, 2:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHEvangeline46 min
Jul 9, 2:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHBeauregard50 min
Jul 9, 2:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHSaint Landry51 min
Jul 9, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides48 min
Jul 9, 3:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon51 min
Jul 9, 4:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon33 min
Jul 8, 9:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin60 min
Jul 8, 9:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin55 min
Jul 9, 3:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHOrange43 min

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.