Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 20, 1993, 12:17 PM CST for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 20, 1993, 12:17 PM CST (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 20, 1993, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 KBTR 201819 FFWBTR LAC033-037-063-077-097-121-125-202115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 1217 PM CST WED JAN 20 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH...EAST FELICIANA PARISH ...LIVINGSTON PARISH...POINTE COUPEE PARISH...ST.LANDRY PARISH ...WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH...WEST FELICIANA PARISH THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA PRODUCING FLOODING OF STREETS...UNDERPASSES...AND SECONDARY ROADS. LOW LYING AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING WILL CONTINUE. SMALL STREAMS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES WILL CONTINUE OUT OF BANK. MOTORIST THAT MUST TRAVEL SHOULD DO DRIVE WITH CAUTION. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH 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, 6:32 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-201400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 632 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... MAINLY NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND WEST INTO EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM COVINGTON TO BOGALUSA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. SOME STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY WITH THE STONGER STORMS. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE INCLUDED IN RAIN OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN WEST OVER THE BATON ROUGE AREA TO LAFAYETTE. THE AREA OF RAIN EXTENDED NORTH AND EAST FROM SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 7:31 AM CST, 4 hours 46 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-201500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 731 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... MAINLY NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND WEST INTO EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... A SHORT LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM BETWEEN HAMMOND AND COVINGTON SOUTHBETWEEN LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND LAKE MAUREPAS AND THEN SOUTHWST TO GRAMERCY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL PRODUCE STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE INCLUDED IN RAIN OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN WEST TO LAFAYETTE. THE AREA OF RAIN EXTENDED NORTH AND EAST FROM SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMvA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 8:02 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
LAZ006-008-009-201600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 800 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA TODAY EXCEPT FOR AVOYELLES...CATAHOULA AND CONCORDIA PARISHES. RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN TO NEAR LAKE CHARLES NORTHWARD TO NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA AND TO NEAR JACKSON IN MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 25 MPH. THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS RECORDED NEARLY 3.60 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE MIDNIGHT WITH LOCAL AREAS REPORTING UPWARDS OF 5 INCHES. THIS HEAVY RAIN ON SATURATED GROUND WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR MOST OF TODAY UNTIL A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STATE EARLY TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 10:44 AM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-201800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1040 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... MAINLY NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND WEST INTO EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA BETWEEN NEW IBERIA AND NEW ORLEANS EXTENDING NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED OVER LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN JUST NORTH OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA...AND JUST EAST OF BAY ST LOUIS MISSISSIPPI. AS PRECIPITATION CONTINUES TO PERSIST dACROSS THE WATCH AREA SOME STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ARE POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 11:37 AM CST, 40 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-201900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1135 AM CST WED JAN 20 1993 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... MAINLY NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND WEST INTO EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER LOUISIANA BETWEEN NEW IBERIA LOUISIANA AND PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI EXTENDING NORTH ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF COVINGTON LOUISIANA AND JUST NORTH OF BILOXI MISSISSIPPI. AS PRECIPITATION CONTINUES TO PERSIST ACROSS THE WATCH AREA SOME STREET FLOODING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ARE POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 9:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Baton Rouge | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 9:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Livingston | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 10:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 10:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 4 hr |
| Jan 20, 11:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Livingston | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Saint Helena, West Baton Rouge | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee, Saint Landry | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 3 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa, Washington | 4 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Martin | 4 hr |
| Jan 20, 5:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 4 hr |
| Jan 20, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa | 69 min |
| Jan 20, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint James | 69 min |
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.