Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1989, 8:07 AM CDT for Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1989, 8:07 AM CDT (13:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1989, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vermilion 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KLCH 141315
FFWLCH
LAC113-141615-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
807 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISH...
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
...VERMILION
THE VERMILION PARISH SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS THAT SERIOUS STREET
FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN THE ABBEVILLE AND ERATH AREAS. RADAR
INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING OVER THE WHOLE PARISH.
PEOPLE SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER ESPECIALLY
IN LOW LYING AREAS AND NEAR BAYOUS AND RIVERS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE yWATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.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, Jul 14, 2:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 240 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN LAFAYETTE PARISH... AT 225 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SHOWN ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF LAFAYETTE PARISH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSING STREET FLOODING ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANEROUS LIGHTNING. MOTORISTS...ESPECIALLY ON INTERSTATE 10...SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION AS VISIBILITIES MAY BE NEAR ZERO AT TIMES. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF VILLE PLATTE TO JUST NORTHWEST AND NORTH OF MORGAN CITY. RAIPN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN EAST OF A CAMERON...JENNINGS...BUNKIE LINE AND EXTENDED TO NEAR BATON ROUGE AND WELL EAST OF MORGAN CITY. SMALL PATCHES OF RAIN WERE INDICATED IN THE COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 540 AM CDT FRI JUL 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS FORMING IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS MORNING... AT 535 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM BEAUMONT TO BUNA TO VIDOR TO ORANGE TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEAR BEAUMONT..VIDOR..ORANGE AND MAURICEVILLE TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WIGNDS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.
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.