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Wind Advisory 15, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this wind advisory at Oct 16, 2017, 8:58 AM CDT for Cameron Parish, Lafayette Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 2017, 8:58 AM CDT (13:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2017, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
Counties Cameron Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:03 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
064 WWUS74 KLCH 161358 NPWLCH URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Lake Charles LA 858 AM CDT Mon Oct 16 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... .Winds associated with frontal passage remain strong along coast...expected to diminish by this evening. LAZ041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ215-216-162300- /O.NEW.KLCH.WI.Y.0015.171016T1400Z-171016T2300Z/ Calcasieu-Jefferson Davis-Acadia-Lafayette-Upper St. Martin- Vermilion-Iberia-St. Mary-Lower St. Martin-West Cameron- East Cameron-Jefferson-Orange- Including the cities of Lake Charles, Sulphur, Hathaway, Jennings, Topsy, Roanoke, Welsh, Lake Arthur, Crowley, Rayne, Branch, Church Point, Richard, Lafayette, Breaux Bridge, Cade, St. Martinville, Abbeville, Intracoastal City, Meaux, Forked Island, Kaplan, New Iberia, Morgan City, Burns Point, Centerville, Franklin, Patterson, Berwick, Bayou Vista, Stephensville, Hackberry, Johnson Bayou, Grand Lake, Klondike, Cameron, Creole, Grand Chenier, Rutherford Beach, Beaumont, Sabine Pass, Sea Rim State Park, Orange, Vidor, and Bridge City 858 AM CDT Mon Oct 16 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a Wind Advisory, which is in effect until 6 PM CDT this evening. * TIMING...Through Early Evening Hours * WINDS...20 mph gusting to 30 mph * IMPACTS...Difficult driving conditions for high profile vehicles, especially on elevated roadways. Loose lawn objects along with trash cans will be blown around. Small tree limbs broken. Sporadic power outages possible. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Wind Advisory means that winds of 20 mph are expected. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution. && $$ RM
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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.