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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 27, 1989Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1989, 8:51 AM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1989, 8:51 AM CDT (13:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1989, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

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 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 520 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 27, 8:47 AM CDT, 4 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
Jun 27, 6:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	2 hr
Jun 27, 6:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	2 hr
Jun 27, 7:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	49 min
Jun 27, 8:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	46 min
Jun 27, 8:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	2 hr
Jun 27, 1:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin	5 hr
Jun 27, 2:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jefferson	5 hr
Jun 27, 4:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	4 hr
Jun 27, 5:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Orange	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1989 Every flash flood warning in 1989

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.