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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at May 6, 2022, 12:21 AM CDT for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 24 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
- May 6, 2022, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2022, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 30
County St. Mary Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1644 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted.
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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 May 5, 2:40 PM CDT, 9 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 2:40 PM CDT, 9 hours 41 minutes before
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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 |
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| May 5, 9:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 38 min |
| May 5, 9:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 61 min | |
| May 5, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 58 min | |
| May 5, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 27 min |
| May 5, 10:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 39 min | |
| May 5, 10:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 23 min |
| May 5, 11:07 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 38 min | |
| May 5, 11:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| May 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Vermilion | 43 min |
| May 6, 12:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 29 min | |
| May 6, 12:36 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 24 min | |
| May 6, 12:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 34 min | |
| May 6, 12:50 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 55 min | |
| May 6, 2:39 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 36 min | |
| May 6, 3:08 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 37 min | |
| May 6, 3:13 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 32 min | |
| May 6, 3:45 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 5 hr |
| May 6, 3:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 37 min | |
| May 6, 4:10 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 35 min |
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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.