Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1989, 12:39 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1989, 12:39 AM CDT (05:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1989, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron 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 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 1247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Local storm report, Jun 29, 8:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 710 PM CDT THU JUN 29 1981 REPORT ON FLOODING CONDITIONS AS OF 500 PM CDT THU JUN 29 1989 FOR RAPIDES PARISH AS PROVIDED BY CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR... UNION HILL AND GLENMORA AREA... HOUSES FLOODED 5 FIVE FAMILIES EVACUATED CHURCH FLOODED 1 BUSINESS FLOODED 1 HOUSES HAD FROM 6 INCHES TO 18 INCHES OF WATER...WATERS CONTINUE TO RISE IN THIS AREA DUE TO FLOODING ALONG THE CALCASIEU RIVER... SOUTH RIVER ROAD...CLOSED... GLENMORA TO MELDER ROAD...CLOSED... RICHMOND ROAD...CLOSED... OTTIS TO MELDER ROAD...CLOSED... LA 112...CLOSED... LA 113...CLOSED... LA 463...CLOSED... LA 461...CLOSED... ALEXANDRIA AREA... CLOVERLEAF...FLOODED... BALL LANE...FLOODED... DOWNS LANE...FLOODED... SABINA AND ULSTER...FLOODED... JOYCE AND MERTONS...FLOODED... PISGAH ROAD...FLOODED ROBINSON BRIDGE NEAR LSUA SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA...FLOODED... MONROE STREET UNDERPASS...FLOODED... WINDERMERE BRIDGE...FLOODED... WOODSWORTH...MCNARY AREA... MCNARY CUTOFF ROAD...FLOODED... DAN TRIPPLETT ROAD...FLOODED... ONE FAMILY EVACUATED NEAR COTILE LAKE ON LA 1200...
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALEXANDRIA LA 1045 PM CDT THU JUN 29 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR RAPIDES AND GRANT PARISHES OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FOR RAPIDES PARISH UNTIL 200 AM CDT THIS FRIDAY MORNING... AT 1045 PM CDT RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ENTERING RAPIDES PARISH FROM THE SOUTHEAST MOVING NORTHWEST...EXPECT HEAVY RAINS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE CHENEYVILLE LECOMPTE AREAS THEN ON ITO THE ALEXANDRIA PINEVILLE AREA...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 10:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Cameron | 3 hr |
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.