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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 6, 2021Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2021, 5:45 AM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 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: Jun 6, 2021, 5:45 AM CDT (10:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2021, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 706 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 6, 3:41 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:41 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 4:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:45 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 6:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	89 min
Jun 6, 7:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	71 min
Jun 6, 7:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	3 hr
Jun 6, 7:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	82 min
Jun 6, 8:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	54 min
Jun 6, 9:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	45 min
Jun 6, 9:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	27 min
Jun 6, 10:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia	48 min
Jun 6, 11:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Landry	45 min
Jun 6, 11:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Landry	45 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Louisiana, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.