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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 18, 1995Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 18, 1995, 1:35 AM CST for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 18, 1995, 1:35 AM CST (07:35 UTC)
Expired
Dec 18, 1995, 4:00 AM CST
In force
2 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 00:00Z, 7.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-12-18Temperature 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 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 1995-12-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 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
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 180739
FFWLCH
LAC055-181000-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING...UPDATED FOR HIGHER CREST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
135 AM CST MON DEC 18 1995

...FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE VERMILION RIVER...

THE VERMILION RIVER AT SURREY STREET BRIDGE IN LAFAYETTE WAS
AT 12.59 FEET AT 130 AM. THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO CREST LATE
TONIGHT AT 13.50 FEET. THIS WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING
OF HOMES IN THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE.

THIS CREST MAY REVISED UPWARD LATER TONIGHT IF HEAVY RAINS
PERSIST.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 7:22 PM CSTTornado WarningLCHAcadia53 min
Dec 17, 10:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHCameron37 min
Dec 18, 12:18 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette3 hr
Dec 18, 3:28 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette4 hr
Dec 18, 3:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard, Vernon42 min
Dec 18, 5:46 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHVernon59 min
Dec 18, 7:31 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette4 hr
Dec 18, 10:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis3 hr
Dec 18, 10:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHRapides3 hr
Dec 18, 3:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette5 hr

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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.