Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA

TTAAOO KESF 180855
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALEXANDRIA LA
355 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1989

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR RAPIDES...GRANT AND LASALLE
PARISHES OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL 400AM THIS THURSDAY
MORNING...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHERN AND WEST CENTRAL
LOUISIANA INCLUDING RAPIDES...GRANT AND LASALLE PARISHES
FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR RAPIDES PARISH...

AT 355 AM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTHWEST OF
THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA MOVING NORTHEAST ...THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ...MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS...
SOME STREET FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN ALEXANDRIA.

PERSONS DRIVING TO WORK SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING OF
ROADWAYS AND STREETS. 2.20 INCHES OF RAIN WAS RECORDED AT
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN 45 MINUTES.

POWER WAS OUT IN SOME SECTIONS OF ALEXANDRIA.

ATTN SELS BPT

LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
415 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1989

TIME      EVENT

MAY 17
615 PM    GARRISON TX...NACOGDOCHES CNTY...6 CHICKEN BARNS UNROOFED
          REPORT VIA SHV TV STORM SPOTTER...BARNS WERE UNOCCUPIED.

DCG

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
448 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1989

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY INCLUDING PARTS OF
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST...AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

AT 430 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN FROM JUST
NORTHEAST AND EAST OF ALEXANDRIA TO THE BUNKIE...OAKDALE...AND KINDER
AREAS. OTHERS WERE SHOWN FROM WESTERN BEAUREGARD...CALCASIEU...AND
CAMERON PARISHES INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS BETWEEN GALVESTON AND PORT ARTHUR
EXTENDING NORTH TO NEAR KIRBYVILLE...WOODVILLE...AND LAKE LIVINGSTON.

RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO COVER A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST AND
CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM THE GALVESTON AND HOUSTON
AREAS TO SABINE PASS...BEAUMONT...AND JASPER TEXAS INTO LOUISIANA AS
FAR EAST AS JENNINGS...EUNICE...BUNKIE AND NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI.

THIS MASS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY EAST.

PERSONS IN CALCASIEU...BEAUREGARD...JEFF DAVIS...ACADIA...AND
EVANGELINE PARISHES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND SMALL
STREAMS DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
OVER THESE AREAS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
542 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1989

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY INCLUDING PARTS OF
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST...AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

AT 530 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER CALCASIEU
AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES EXTENDING EAST TO JEFF DAVIS...ACADIA...AND
EVANGELINE PARISHES.

THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT WERE LIKELY CAUSING
FLOODING OF STREETS AND SMALL STREAMS AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.

THESE WERE PART OF A LARGE MASS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED
MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS WAS
SHOWN EAST AS FAR AS NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...AND NEAR OPELOUSAS...CROWLEY
...AND CAMERON LOUISIANA AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM
GALVESTON TO NORTHWEST OF HOUSTON.

THE ENTIRE MASS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS DRIFTING VERY SLOWLY
EAfST.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
645 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1989

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY INCLUDING PARTS OF
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST...AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

AT 630 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN REMAINED OVER CALCASIEU
...CAMERON...AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES AND WERE SHIFTING EAST INTO PARTS
OF ACADIA PARISH.

THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS CAUSING FLOODING OF
STREETS AND SMALL STREAMS AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY
SOME SMALL HAIL.

THE MAYOR OF VINTON LOUISIANA WEST OF LAKE CHARLES REPORTED 6.34 INCHES
OF RAIN AS OF 618AM HOWEVER THE RAIN HAD DECREASED CONSIDERABLY. SOME
ROADS WERE FLOODED. PERSONS IN NORTHWESTERN CALCASIEU AND SOUTHWESTERN
BEAUREGARD PARISHES SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR FLOODING AS WELL AS
THOSE IN THE CITIES OF LAKE CHARLES...SULPHUR...DEQUINCY...AND
WESTLAKE..

THESE WERE PART OF A LARGE MASS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST
OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS EXTENDING AS FAR
EAST AS THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR LAFAYETTE AND
WHITE LAKE LOUISIANA AND INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS TO NEAR LAKE LIVINGSTON
AND WEST OF HOUSTON. THIS WAS SLIDING SLOWLY EAST.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
741 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1989

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY INCLUDING PARTS OF
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST...AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

AT 730 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF
CAMERON...CALCASIEU...BEAUREGARD...AND ALLEN PARISHES AND HAD DEVELOPED
OVER JEFF DAVIS PARISH.

THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS CAUSING FLOODING OF
STREETS AND SMALL STREAMS AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY
SOME SMALL HAIL.

REPORTS INDICATE SOME STREET FLOODING IN THE CITY OF LAKE CHARLES AS
WELL AS VINTON AND DEQUINCY IN CALCASIEU PARISH.

THESE WERE PART OF A LARGE MASS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED
MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST
TEXAS. NEW DEVELOPMENT WAS TAKING PLACE IN TEXAS BETWEEN JASPER...
HOUSTON...AND LAKE LIVINGSTON.