Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Lake Charles, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
545 AM CDT THU JUN 29 1989

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTHWEST AND WEST LOUISIANA
...CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 530 AM...BANDS OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN WIDESPREAD RAIN
WERE LOCATED IN EAST TEXAS FROM JASPER AND KIRBYVILLE  SOUTH ACROSS
ORANGE AND PORT ARTHUR INTO THE GULF 30 MILES SOUTH TO 60 MILES SOUTH
WEST OF SABINE PASS...AND IN LOUISIANA FROM JUST EAST OF THE TOLEDO
BEND RESERVOIR TO SOUTH OF WINNFIELD SOUTH TO EUNICE...OPELOUSAS...
CROWLEY ACROSS WHITE LAKE INTO THE GULF...LAFAYETTE TO THE ATCHAFALAYA
BAY SOUTH INTO THE GULF 75 MILES...AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR
AND SOUTHEAST OF BATON ROUGE.

MASSIVE RAIN WITH THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN THE RAIN COVERED EXTREME EAST
TEXAS AND MOST OF THE WEST TWO THIRDS OF LOUISIANA INTO THE GULF TO
BEYOND 100 MILES SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF GALVESTON AND FREEPORT.

MOVEMENT IN NORTH LOUISIANA WAS WEST AT 15 MPH...SOUTH CENTRAL
LOUISIANA AND THE GULF NORTH AT 25 MPH.

SCATTERED HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES AROUND ALEXANDRIA AND LAFAYETTE BUT
RAIN HAS SLACKED UP AROUND LAKE CHARLES.

NEVERTHELESS...MANY REPORTS OF FLOODED STREETS IN LAKE CHARLES HAVE
BEEN RECEIVED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ONLY USE EXTREME CAUTION BUT
UNNECESSARY DRIVING SHOULD BE PUT OFF FOR ANOTHER FEW HOURS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
930AM CDT THU JUN 29 1989

  ...TEXAS HIGHWAY 87 STILL CLOSED...

JUST A REMINDER..TEXAS HIGHWAY 87 BETWEEN SABINE PASS AND HIGH ISLAND
REMAINS CLOSED.  THE SEGMENT FROM HIGH ISLAND TO THE FERRY IS OPEN.
DJK