Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 1988, 12:25 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1988, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1988, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 110525 FFWBPT TXC245-110830- BULLETIN-IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1225 AM CDT THU AUG 11 1988 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 330 AM CDT THIS THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH JEFFERSON COUNTY AND THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF PORT ARTHUR. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED ACROSS SOUTH JEFFERSON COUNTY AND PARTS OF DOWNTOWN PORT ARTHUR HAVE FLOODED STREETS AND A FEW STALLED CARS. THE PORT ARTHUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEGUN BARRICADING STREETS IN THE DOWNTOWN DISTRICT. AT 1215 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ORANGE THROUGH BRIDGE CITY AND PORT ARTHUR TO HIGH ISLAND. THE LINE WAS STATIONARY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. STREET FLOODING MAY OCCURR IN BRIDGE CITY AND ORANGE LATER TONIGHT AND THE FLOOD WARNING MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO ORANGE COUNTY. STRONG GUSTY WIND AND EXTREMELY BRITLLIANT LIGHTENING HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE ON THE STREETS IN SOUTH JEFFERSON COUNTY AND ORANGE COUNTY...PLEASE STAY IN. LISTEN TO THE PORT ARTHUR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER DEVELOPEMENTS. DCG
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 11:26 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1125 PM CDT WED AUG 10 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS SOME PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS... AT 1125 PM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING IN A NORTHEAST SOUTHWEST MANNER FROM NEAR GALVESTON TO JUST WEST OF LAKE CHARLES AND WEST OF ALEXANDRIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VIVID LIGHTNING... AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. SOME STREET FLOODING COULD ALSO OCCURR. PERSONS MAINLY IN CALCASIEU...BEAUREGARD...VERNON PARISHES SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER RELEASES IN THE EVENT IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A WARNING. - ELSEWHERE...PATCHES OF RAIN CONTINUED IN THE VICINITY OF WHITE LAKE AND ALSO NBETWEEN TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR A ND THE SHREVEPORT AREA.
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.