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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Lake Charles, LA

August 26, 202316 parishes in Louisiana; 6 counties in Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this red flag warning at Aug 26, 2023, 3:23 PM CDT for 16 parishes in Louisiana; 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 27, 2023, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 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: Aug 26, 2023, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 27, 2023, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 27, 2023, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 10 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 20:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 308 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: 2280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Aug 26, 12:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 12:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 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
Aug 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more	29 hr
Aug 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 3 more	13 hr
Aug 26, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	35 min
Aug 26, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	33 min
Aug 26, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	32 min
Aug 26, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	34 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Louisiana, 2023 Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2023 Every red flag warning in 2023

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.