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Weather alerts in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 2011

189 weather alerts in 2011, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Rapides Parish and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 189
Warnings: 68
Watches: 21
Advisories: 37
Busiest month: March30 alerts
Busiest day: March 9, 201119 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

2 of 3 tornado warnings covering Rapides Parish in 2011 had a tornado report inside them; 4 of 7 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 21 minutes after it went out.

Rapides Parish, 2011

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	3	2	33%	7	57%	21 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	25	16	36%	23	78%	23 min
Flash flood warnings	4	2	50%	3	67%	28 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Lake Charles, LA: tornado warnings	32	8	75%	20	60%	12 min
NWS Lake Charles, LA: severe thunderstorm warnings	146	65	55%	202	68%	25 min
NWS Lake Charles, LA: flash flood warnings	8	4	50%	9	78%	32 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 1, 2:04 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	18 hr
Jan 2, 3:45 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	17 hr
Jan 9, 3:22 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	16 hr
Jan 10, 3:30 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	16 hr
Jan 11, 4:15 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	29 hr
Jan 12, 4:46 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	28 hr
Jan 13, 2:50 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	17 hr
Jan 13, 2:50 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	14 hr
Jan 20, 4:27 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	12 hr
Jan 21, 4:12 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	29 hr
Jan 22, 3:50 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	16 hr
Jan 26, 9:09 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	11 hr
Jan 31, 3:37 PM CST	Hard Freeze Watch	LCH	11 hr
Jan 31, 3:37 PM CST	Wind Advisory	LCH	30 hr
Feb 1, 2:49 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	31 hr
Feb 1, 6:46 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Feb 1, 8:15 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	LCH	26 hr
Feb 1, 8:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	77 min
Feb 1, 8:40 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Feb 1, 9:43 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	92 min
Feb 1, 10:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	31 min
Feb 2, 4:25 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	30 hr
Feb 2, 3:22 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	LCH	14 hr
Feb 3, 4:54 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	LCH	31 hr
Feb 3, 12:58 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr
Feb 3, 10:36 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Feb 4, 5:28 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Feb 4, 3:00 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	19 hr
Feb 6, 8:16 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Feb 7, 3:12 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	17 hr
Feb 9, 5:50 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LCH	18 hr
Feb 9, 5:57 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	22 hr
Feb 9, 2:50 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	18 hr
Feb 10, 2:11 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	20 hr
Feb 11, 3:01 PM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	19 hr
Feb 12, 2:41 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	17 hr
Mar 8, 4:52 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	25 hr
Mar 8, 9:52 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
Mar 8, 12:54 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	36 min
Mar 8, 1:08 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Mar 8, 5:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	48 min
Mar 8, 5:46 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
Mar 8, 6:26 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	109 min
Mar 8, 6:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	42 min
Mar 8, 7:37 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 8, 7:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Mar 8, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	59 min
Mar 8, 8:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	29 min
Mar 8, 8:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	47 min
Mar 8, 9:40 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	65 min
Mar 8, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	30 min
Mar 8, 10:28 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Mar 8, 11:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	39 min
Mar 9, 12:07 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	53 min
Mar 9, 12:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	34 min
Mar 9, 1:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	60 min
Mar 9, 1:28 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Mar 9, 1:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Mar 9, 4:38 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Mar 9, 6:28 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Mar 9, 11:20 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	53 hr
Mar 20, 10:37 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	10 hr
Mar 29, 3:17 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 29, 6:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
Mar 29, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 29, 10:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Apr 4, 4:16 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	16 hr
Apr 4, 10:53 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 4, 11:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Apr 4, 2:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Apr 4, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	41 min
Apr 4, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	48 min
Apr 10, 3:19 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	15 hr
Apr 15, 7:32 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 15, 8:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	63 min
Apr 15, 8:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	67 min
Apr 15, 9:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	42 min
Apr 19, 4:38 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	14 hr
Apr 23, 3:31 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	14 hr
Apr 24, 11:35 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	23 hr
Apr 25, 10:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 25, 11:08 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	41 hr
Apr 26, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	39 min
Apr 26, 1:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Apr 26, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 26, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	61 min
Apr 26, 2:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	58 min
Apr 26, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 26, 6:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 26, 8:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	97 min
Apr 26, 9:42 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 26, 11:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
May 2, 1:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 20, 4:44 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	11 hr
May 23, 4:23 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	14 hr
May 25, 1:19 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	5 hr
May 25, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 25, 10:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	55 min
May 25, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	60 min
May 25, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	60 min
May 26, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	63 min
Jun 2, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	12 min
Jun 2, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	65 min
Jun 2, 7:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	93 min
Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	25 min
Jun 2, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	54 min
Jun 4, 6:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Jun 5, 6:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 20, 6:04 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	20 hr
Jun 21, 8:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	25 min
Jun 21, 9:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	29 min
Jun 21, 10:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	26 min
Jun 21, 11:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	62 min
Jun 21, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	28 min
Jun 21, 1:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	3 hr
Jun 21, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	42 min
Jun 22, 8:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	35 min
Jun 30, 2:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Jul 3, 10:36 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	8 hr
Jul 4, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	28 min
Jul 5, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	80 min
Jul 11, 3:50 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	12 hr
Jul 23, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	45 min
Jul 23, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	32 min
Jul 23, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	31 min
Aug 1, 1:30 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	14 hr
Aug 2, 3:03 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	16 hr
Aug 2, 4:06 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	27 hr
Aug 3, 2:25 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	63 hr
Aug 4, 9:08 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	LCH	19 hr
Aug 6, 9:43 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	33 hr
Aug 9, 11:46 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	54 hr
Aug 18, 3:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Aug 18, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	66 min
Aug 19, 4:31 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	13 hr
Aug 20, 3:16 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	16 hr
Aug 23, 4:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	35 min
Aug 24, 12:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
Aug 24, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	63 min
Aug 24, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	39 min
Aug 24, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
Aug 24, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	67 min
Aug 25, 3:27 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LCH	12 hr
Sep 1, 8:08 PM CDT	Tropical Storm Warning	LCH	3 days
Sep 2, 12:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	63 hr
Sep 2, 1:49 PM CDT	Hurricane Local Statement	LCH	56 hr
Sep 4, 2:17 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	29 hr
Sep 4, 5:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	115 min
Sep 4, 7:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	117 min
Sep 4, 9:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	6 hr
Sep 28, 12:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Sep 28, 5:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Sep 28, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Sep 28, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	34 min
Sep 28, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	26 min
Sep 28, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	52 min
Sep 28, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	33 min
Sep 28, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	29 min
Sep 28, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	23 min
Sep 28, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	26 min
Sep 28, 9:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	94 min
Oct 12, 1:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Oct 17, 11:48 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	LCH	33 hr
Oct 17, 3:41 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	29 hr
Oct 18, 3:31 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	LCH	27 hr
Nov 8, 5:09 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	66 min
Nov 8, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Nov 8, 9:21 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
Nov 10, 9:42 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	10 hr
Nov 14, 3:52 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	5 hr
Nov 15, 5:44 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	61 min
Nov 15, 5:56 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Nov 17, 3:21 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	18 hr
Nov 20, 3:47 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	18 hr
Nov 22, 9:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	30 min
Nov 28, 5:22 AM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	25 hr
Dec 6, 2:02 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	17 hr
Dec 7, 10:30 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	LCH	23 hr
Dec 8, 3:20 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	18 hr
Dec 10, 9:28 AM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	20 hr
Dec 13, 3:47 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	20 hr
Dec 17, 2:44 PM CST	Freeze Warning	LCH	16 hr
Dec 20, 5:54 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	111 min
Dec 20, 6:28 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	3 hr
Dec 20, 8:32 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	118 min
Dec 22, 4:11 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	34 min
Dec 22, 4:36 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Dec 22, 6:11 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	64 min
Dec 30, 3:53 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	5 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	25
Tornado Warning	3
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	3
Tornado Watch	13
Mesoscale Discussion	37
Special Weather Statement	25
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	2
Flash Flood Warning	4
River Flood Warning	1
Flash Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	6
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Watch	1
Winter Weather Advisory	1
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	11
Cold
Freeze Warning	17
Hard Freeze Warning	12
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind Chill Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	13
Fire
Red Flag Warning	1
Fire Weather Watch	1
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	5
Tropical
Tropical Storm Warning	1
Hurricane Local Statement	1

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2010 2012

Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.