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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA

January 5, 202510 parishes in Louisiana; Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this wind advisory at Jan 5, 2025, 2:33 AM CST for 10 parishes in Louisiana; Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 5, 2025, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2025, 2:33 AM CST (08:33 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 5, 2025, 10:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 5, 2025, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Jefferson County, TX, Orange County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 4, 10:28 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 10:28 PM CST, 4 hours 5 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 5, 3:31 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more	30 hr
Jan 5, 3:31 AM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia and 6 more	30 hr
Jan 5, 2:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	46 min
Jan 5, 3:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	38 min
Jan 5, 3:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Beauregard	44 min
Jan 5, 4:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Rapides	59 min
Jan 5, 4:52 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		38 min
Jan 5, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Rapides	33 min
Jan 5, 5:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis	61 min
Jan 5, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry	15 min
Jan 5, 5:46 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		59 min
Jan 5, 2:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	45 min

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.