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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 11, 1995Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 11, 1995, 9:52 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 11, 1995, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1995, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Beauregard Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-04-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -60 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2343 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 120258 RRA
FFWLCH
LAC011-121500-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
952 PM CDT TUE APR 11 1995

...FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR BUNDICKS LAKE AND BUNDICKS
CREEK...

BUNDICKS LAKE WAS AT 100 FEET MSL AND RISING THIS EVENING. FULL POOL
IS 95 FEET MSL. BUNDICKS LAKE AND CREEK WILL CONTINUE TO RISE THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. WATER IS COVERING HIGHWAY 394 IN THE
BUNDICKS LAKE AREA. LA 113 HAS WATER OVER THE BRIDGE
AT BUNDICKES CREEK.

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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.