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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 9, 2020Hardin County, Jasper County, Newton County, Texas; Cameron Parish, Lafayette Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this wind advisory at Jan 9, 2020, 9:50 AM CST for Hardin County, Jasper County, Newton County, Texas; Cameron Parish, Lafayette Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 9, 2020, 9:50 AM CST (15:50 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2020, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

Counties Cameron Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 25 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 393 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

685 
WWUS74 KLCH 091550
NPWLCH

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
950 AM CST Thu Jan 9 2020

LAZ041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ201-215-216-261-262-100000-
/O.NEW.KLCH.WI.Y.0002.200109T1550Z-200110T0000Z/
Calcasieu-Jefferson Davis-Acadia-Lafayette-Upper St. Martin-
Vermilion-Iberia-St. Mary-Lower St. Martin-West Cameron-
East Cameron-Hardin-Jefferson-Orange-Southern Jasper-
Southern Newton-
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, Lumberton, 
Silsbee, Beaumont, Sabine Pass, Sea Rim State Park, Orange, 
Vidor, Bridge City, Gist, Buna, Evadale, and Deweyville
950 AM CST Thu Jan 9 2020

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Southeast winds around 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.

* WHERE...Portions of south central and southwest Louisiana and 
  southeast Texas.

* WHEN...Until 6 PM CST this evening.

* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. 
  Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may 
  result.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 5:00 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		61 hr

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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.