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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 13, 1995Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 13, 1995, 11:09 PM CST for Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 1995, 11:09 PM CST (05:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 1995, 4:00 AM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Vermilion Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 1995-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 3:31 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHVermilion2 hr
Mar 14, 5:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHEvangeline56 min
Mar 14, 4:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHBeauregard49 min
Mar 14, 5:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard43 min

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.