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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 16, 2023, 4:01 AM CDT for 16 parishes in Louisiana; 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 17, 2023, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2023, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 17, 2023, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
All 22 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 3933 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 4:01 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline and 8 more | 15 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:01 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | LCH | Cameron, Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion | 24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.