Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

Issued

Mar 4, 1992, 1:24 PM CST (19:24 UTC)

Expired

Mar 4, 1992, 3:30 PM CST

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Lake Charles, LA

Area

Whole counties

County Nacogdoches County, TX

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TTAA00 KBPT 041924
FFWBPT
TXC347-042130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
124 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORT ARTHUR HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...NACOGDOCHES COUNTY
 
AT 120 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF EAST TEXAS EXTENDING FROM THE
LAKES AREA TO THE HOUSTON AREA. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH...MEANING SEVERAL STRONG STORMS WILL REPEATEDLY MOVE OVER
THE SAME AREAS.
 
SINCE THIS MORNING...NACOGDOCHES HAS RECEIVED THREE AND THREE-QUARTERS
INCHES OF RAIN.  THE NACOGDOCHES SHERIFF OFFICE HAS REPORTED HIGHWAYS
302...535...525...AND FM 2863 HAD WATER OVER THEM IN PLACES.
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IoN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
NNNN

In the hours before

LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-041940-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1240 PM CST WED MAR 4 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND
   SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA UNTIL 5 PM..

AT 1230 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY
IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS STORM PRODUCED A TORNADO AS IT PASSED THROUGH
LIBERTY COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER NOON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT  30
MILES AN HOUR.

THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
EAST TEXAS THAT EXTENDED WEST OF THE TEXAS..LOUISIANA BORDER FROM TOLEDO
BEND TO SABINE PASS.

SHOWERS WERE ALSO OVER THE MARSHES >AND COASTAL WATERS FROM PECAN ISLAND
TO VERMILION BAY.

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.