Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 18, 1995, 3:30 PM CST for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 1995, 3:30 PM CST (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 1995, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 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, 9.5 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 182128 FFWLCH LAC055-190200- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 330 PM CST MON DEC 18 1995 ...FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE VERMILION RIVER... THE VERMILION RIVER AT SURREY STREET BRIDGE IN LAFAYETTE WAS AT 14.51 FEET AT 315 PM DOWN FROM 14.71 FEET AT NOON. THE RIVER HAS CRESTED. HOWEVER...WE WILL MONITOR DUE TO RUNOFF THIS EVENING. FLOOD STAGE IS 10 FEET. AT 13 FEET...SOME MINOR FLOODING OF PROPERTY OCCURS...WITH SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF HOMES ABOVE 14 FEET.
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, Dec 18, 12:19 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
LAZ030-182115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1219 PM CST MON DEC 18 1995 ...HIGH WATER AT BUNDICKS LAKE IN BEAUREGARD PARISH... THE 10 AM READING AT BUNDICKS LAKE WAS AT 97 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. MODERATE FLOODING BEGINS AT 98 FEET. DUE TO RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS NORTH OF THE LAKE...A LEVEL OF 98 FEET CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT THREE HOURS. THOSE WITH LAKEFRONT PROPERTY SHOULD TAKE PROTECTIVE MEASURES.
Special weather statement, Dec 18, 2:32 PM CST, 58 minutes before
LAZ028-029-031>033-042>045-051>055-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 232 PM CST MON DEC 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1080 CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWESTERN...CENTRAL ...AND MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1080 CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...UPPER ST MARTIN...LOWER ST MARTIN...AND ST MARY... AND IS CANCELLED FOR VERMILION...LAFAYETTE...ST LANDRY AND ALL OTHER PARISHES NORTH AND WEST. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH INTO THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN. THE CITIES OF LAFAYETTE AND ALEXANDRIA ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH AREA. ...AND COMBINE FORCES ACROSS THE AREA TODAY TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME SMALL STREAMS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Dec 18, 2:33 PM CST, 57 minutes before
LAZ028-029-031>033-042>045-051>055-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 232 PM CST MON DEC 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1080 CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWESTERN...CENTRAL ...AND MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1080 CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...UPPER ST MARTIN...LOWER ST MARTIN...AND ST MARY... AND IS CANCELLED FOR VERMILION...LAFAYETTE...ST LANDRY AND ALL OTHER PARISHES NORTH AND WEST. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH INTO THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN. THE CITIES OF LAFAYETTE AND ALEXANDRIA ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH AREA. ...AND COMBINE FORCES ACROSS THE AREA TODAY TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME SMALL STREAMS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREADT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Local storm report, Dec 18, 3:11 PM CST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
312 PM CST MON DEC 18 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 AM 5 S WARREN TX WIND DAMAGE
12/17/95 TYLER SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
ON HWY 69.
0745 AM JASPER TX WIND DAMAGE
12/18/95 JASPER
SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN.Local storm report, Dec 18, 3:12 PM CST, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
312 PM CST MON DEC 18 1995
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 AM 5 S WARREN TX WIND DAMAGE
12/17/95 TYLER SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
ON HWY 69.
0745 AM JASPER TX WIND DAMAGE
12/18/95 JASPER SEVERAL TREES 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 | Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 10:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.