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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this wind advisory at Jan 30, 2025, 11:32 AM CST for 9 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2025, 11:32 AM CST (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 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 Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 307 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 460 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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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.