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Wind Chill Advisory 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 17, 201810 parishes in Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 17, 2018, 11:09 AM CST for 10 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 111 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 17, 2018, 11:09 AM CST (17:09 UTC)
Expired
Jan 17, 2018, 1:00 PM CST
In force
111 min
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

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 273 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2018-01-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2018-01-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -180 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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
Jan 17, 9:20 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLCH6 hr
Jan 17, 11:13 AM CSTHard Freeze WarningLCHAllen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides, Saint Landry and 2 more107 min
Jan 17, 2:04 PM CSTHard Freeze WarningLCHAllen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Cameron, Evangeline, Lafayette and 4 more20 hr

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.