Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 20, 1993, 1:03 PM CST for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 20, 1993, 1:03 PM CST (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 20, 1993, 5:00 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, 7.1 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 201912 COR FFWLCH LAC055-202300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 103 PM CST WED JAN 20 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...LAFAYETTE PARISH AT 100 PM CST THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT PARTS OF HIGHWAYS 167 AND 90 HEADING WEST WERE BEGINNING TO FLOOD. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS..WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL..CONTINUED IN THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE WITH MOST MAJOR ROADS INTO THE CITY CLOSED. INTERSTATES 49 AND 10 REMAIN OPEN THOUGH. RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL THROUGHOUT THE PARISH FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS..FURTHER ADDING TO THE ALREADY SATURATED CONDITIONS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER 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. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN 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.
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, 7:35 AM CST, 5 hours 28 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, 4 hours 21 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.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 9:49 AM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
LAZ005>009-011>014-MSZ010-TXZ028-032-033-045>049-201640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 948 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL 130 PM THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING... AT 925 AM...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE SHOWN FROM JUST EAST OF LAFAYETTE TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE... AND BETWEEN OAKDALE AND JUST EAST OF KIRBYVILLE TEXAS. PERSONS IN LAFAYETTE PARISH CAN EXPECT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IN THE NEXT 2 HOURS. THE LAFAYETTE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT MAJOR FLOODING WAS OCCURRING IN THE LAFAYETTE AREA. SOME ROADS AND STREETS WERE CLOSED WHILE ADDITIONAL ROADS AND STREETS WERE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CLOSED. PERSONS IN LAFAYETTE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT MOST DEATHS DURING FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES..DIPS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. TO ESCAPE RISING WATERS..MOVE TO HIGHER GROUNDS. PERSONS IN THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO POSSIBLE FLOODING AS HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE FOR MOST OF THE AREA. OTHERWISE..RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...COVERED MUCH OF THE AREA FROM ALONG AND SOUTH OF A NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI...NATCHITOCHES...HOUSTON LINE. THE PRECIPITATION EXTENDED TO JUST SOUTH OF BATON ROUGE AND THEN TO ALONG THE COAST AND OUT TO 25 MILES OFFSHORE FROM WHITE LAKE TO FREEPORT TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 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, 9:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Jan 20, 11:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia | 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.