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Special Weather Statement, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 3, 2023Rapides Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this special weather statement at Jan 3, 2023, 1:25 PM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 35 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: Jan 3, 2023, 1:25 PM CST (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2023, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 30

County Rapides Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 269 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: 352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 351 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 423 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 Jan 2, 5:54 PM CST, 19 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 5:54 PM CST, 19 hours 31 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
Jan 2, 6:55 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LCH		17 hr
Jan 3, 4:56 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	49 min
Jan 3, 7:21 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	24 min
Jan 3, 7:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	21 min
Jan 3, 8:39 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	3 hr
Jan 3, 8:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	27 min
Jan 3, 9:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	23 min
Jan 3, 10:49 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		41 min
Jan 3, 12:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	40 min
Jan 3, 1:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	46 min
Jan 3, 2:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	27 min
Jan 3, 4:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	21 min
Jan 3, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline, Rapides	23 min
Jan 3, 4:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	29 min
Jan 3, 5:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	33 min
Jan 3, 5:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Lafayette	48 min
Jan 3, 6:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Tyler	35 min

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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.