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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 18, 19954 parishes in Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 18, 1995, 10:43 AM CST for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 18, 1995, 10:43 AM CST (16:43 UTC)
Expired: Dec 18, 1995, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 14 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLCH 181644
FFWLCH
LAC079-011-019-023-053-181945-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1043 AM CST MON DEC 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...RAPIDES PARISH
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...BEAUREGARD PARISH...CALCASIEU PARISH...CAMERON PARISH
   ...JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH
 
DOPPLER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. NEARLY 9
INCHES WAS REPORTED AT GRAND CHENIER IN CAMERON PARISH. A BAND OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL BE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN AND
CENTRAL LOUISIANA DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS.
 
ALTHOUGH LITTLE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED FOLLOWING THE BAND OF
THUNDERSTORMS...RUNOFF FROM PREVIOUS RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF
HIGHWAYS...STREETS...AND LOW LYING AREAS DURING THE NEXT THREE HOURS.
 
 
 
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 SPO2TS 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

Local storm report, Dec 18, 7:36 AM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
736 AM CST MON DEC 18 1995

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0710 AM    1 S WOODVILLE           TX     WIND DAMAGE
12/18/95   TYLER                          TREE BLOWN DOWN.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 17, 7:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	53 min
Dec 17, 10:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	37 min
Dec 18, 12:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	3 hr
Dec 18, 1:35 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	2 hr
Dec 18, 3:28 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	4 hr
Dec 18, 3:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	42 min
Dec 18, 5:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Vernon	59 min
Dec 18, 7:31 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	4 hr
Dec 18, 10:43 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Rapides	3 hr
Dec 18, 3:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1995 Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.