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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2020, 6:13 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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 16, 2020, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
County Cameron Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 378 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 1:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 46 min |
| Jul 16, 2:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Iberia | 46 min |
| Jul 16, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 35 min | |
| Jul 16, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 48 min |
| Jul 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Vermilion | 39 min |
| Jul 16, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 64 min | |
| Jul 16, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 41 min | |
| Jul 16, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 64 min |
| Jul 16, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Cameron | 32 min |
| Jul 16, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 29 min | |
| Jul 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 41 min | |
| Jul 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 47 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Louisiana, 2020Every special weather statement in 2020
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.