Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 1991, 6:35 PM CDT for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1991, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1991, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cameron Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 1484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 142336 FFWLCH LAC023-150130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 635 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...CAMERON PARISH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER CAMERON PARISH DURING THE LAST TWO HOURS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE WITH AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
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, Apr 14, 12:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
LAZ001-002-003-005-006-007-008-009-011-012-013-014-MSZ010- TXZ028-032-033-045-046-047-048-049-141845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1245 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT FOR VERNON PARISH... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAYV RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF BEAUREGARD AND VERNON PARISHES THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1232 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM JUST WEST OF JENA...TO THE DE RIDDER AREA...INTO TO TEXAS TO JUST NORTH OF BEAUMONT TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED FROM THE DE RIDDER AREA...TO 25 MILES WEST OF VINTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING AT A RAPID PACE...THE ACTIVITY HAS BE MOVING OVER THE SAME AREA DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS. THE GROUND IS SATURATED ACROSS THESE PARISHES AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS. RESIDENTS SHOULD CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY FLOODING OCCURS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. IN ADDITION...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE ANTICIPATED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 12:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
LAZ001-002-003-005-006-007-008-009-011-012-013-014-MSZ010- TXZ028-032-033-045-046-047-048-049-141845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1245 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT FOR VERNON PARISH... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF BEAUREGARD AND VERNON PARISHES THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1232 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM JUST WEST OF JENA...TO THE DE RIDDER AREA...INTO TO TEXAS TO JUST NORTH OF BEAUMONT. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED FROM THE DE RIDDER AREA...TO 25 MILES WEST OF VINTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING AT A RAPID PACE...THE ACTIVITY HAS BE MOVING OVER THE SAME AREA DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS. THE GROUND IS SATURATED ACROSS THESE PARISHES AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS. RESIDENTS SHOULD CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY FLOODING OCCURS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. IN ADDITION...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE ANTICIPATED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEHWERE...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN CONTINUED FROM OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM WHITE LAKE LOUISIANA TO HIGH ISLAND TEXAS...INLAND TO THE BUNKIE LOUISIANA AND CONROE TEXAS AREAS...TO WELL NORTH JENA ...MANSFIELD LOUISIANA...AND LUFKIN TEXAS.
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 1:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
LAZ001-002-003-005-006-007-008-009-011-012-013-014-MSZ010- TXZ028-032-033-045-046-047-048-049-141952- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 150 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1991 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF BEAUREGARD PARISH THIS AFTERNOON... AT 130 PM...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEAR DE RIDDER TO JUST WEST OF DE QUINCY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER AN AREA WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..SMALL HAIL..AND STREET FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER BEAREGUARD PARISH DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS..WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN.. CONTINUED ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR JENNINGS TO NEAR GALVESTON. THE ACTICITY EXTENDED TO NORTHERN TOLEDO BEND LAKE AND TO JUST EAST OF COLLEGE STATION TEXAS. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE TO NORTHEAST OF BATON ROUGE. WIDMELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO SHOWN OVER THE GULF FROM EAST OF GALVESTON TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON AND EXTENDED TO 80 MILES OFFSHORE SOUTH OF CAMERON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
Local storm report, Apr 14, 5:54 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
ATTN SELS BPT
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1032 AM CDT...NACOGDOCHES COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED PARTS
OF STATE HIGHWAY 21 AND 7 WEST IN NACOGDOCHES
COUNTY UNDER A FOOT OF WATER.
1135 AM CDT...SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED SOME
URBAN STREET FLOODING IN SAN AUGUSTINE IN SAN
AUGUSTINE COUNTY.
105 PM CDT...KTRK LUFKIN RADIO STATION REPORTED WIDESPREAD STREET
FLOODING IN LUFKIN IN ANGELINA GOUNTY WITH WATER
DEPTHS NEAR 16 INCHS.
413 PM CDT...PORT ARTHUR POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED 9TH AVE. IN
PORT ARTHUR IN JEFFERSON COUNTY WAS CLOSED FROM
TURTLE CREEK TO 75TH. ALSO MEMORAL BLVD CLOSED NEAR
19TH ST. IN PORT ARTHUR. ALSO REPORTED WIDESPREAD
FLOODING IN PORT ACRES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.
455 PM CDT...ORANGE COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED ALL STREETS
IN ORANGE FLOODED WITH BLUEBONNET ROAD INPASSABLE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 54 min |
| Apr 14, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 76 min |
| Apr 14, 4:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 61 min |
| Apr 14, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 61 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.