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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 30, 1989Calcasieu Parish, Cameron Parish, Louisiana

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1989-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1247 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1989-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 10:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHRapides4 hr
Jun 30, 10:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu3 hr
Jun 30, 10:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHCameron3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1989Every 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.