Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 20, 1993, 9:21 AM CST for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 20, 1993, 9:21 AM CST (15:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 20, 1993, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 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
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 3:42 AM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jan 20, 5:41 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-201240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 541 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 AT 525 AM...A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS..WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.. WAS SHOWN FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF CAMERON TO WHITE LAKE..TO JUST SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE. DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUND FROM EARLIER RAINS..PARTS OF CAMERON.. CALCASIEU..JEFFERSON DAVIS..VERMILION..ACADIA..AND LAFAYETTE PARISHES WILL LIKELY HAVE SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. OTHERWISE..RAIN AND SHOWERS..WITH WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.. CONTINUED IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS..CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA..AND OVER THE GULF..FROM 75 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON TO BEAUMONT..TO THE SOUTH END OF TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR..AND FROM DE QUINCY TO NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI..TO VERMILION BAY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 6:46 AM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-201340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 641 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING... AT 625 AM...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BATON ROUGE TO BETWEEN CAMERON AND WHITE LAKE. LOCAL STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CAMERON..JEFF DAVIS..AND LAFAYETTE PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO AND THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE..RAIN AND SHOWERS..WITH WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.. CONTINUED IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS..CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA..AND OVER THE GULF..FROM 50 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON TO NEAR CONROE TO NORTH OF JENA TO NORTH OF BATON ROUGE AND TO SOUTHEAST OF BATON ROUGE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 7:35 AM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-201440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 735 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING... AT 725 AM...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR WHITE LAKE..JUST SOUTH OF CROWLEY..JUST NORTHEAST OF DE RIDDER.. AND JUST NORTH OF KOUNTZ TEXAS. LOCAL STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CAMERON..ACADIA..AND LAFAYETTE PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE..RAIN AND SHOWERS..WITH WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.. CONTTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHERN LOUISIANA..AND THE NORTHERN GULF FROM FREEPORT TEXAS TO LAKE LIVINGSTON TO JENA TO EAST OF BATON ROUGE TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GALVESTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 8:42 AM CST, 39 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-201540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 842 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING... AT 826 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR WHITE LAKE...JUST SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE...AND JUST SOUTH OF BEAUMONT. LOCAL STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AS NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO PASS OVERHEAD AT 35 MILES AN HOUR FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. LOCALIZE RAINFALL OF 2 TO 4 INCHES BEING REPORTED OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. OTHERWISE..RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...COVERED MUCH OF THE AREA BETWEEN NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI AND HUNTSVILLE TEXAS AND EXTENDED TO ALONG THE COAST AND OUT TO 30 MILES OFFSHORE FROM FREEPORlT TEXAS TO WHITE LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 4:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Cameron | 68 min |
| Jan 20, 11:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia | 4 hr |
| Jan 20, 1:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 5:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.