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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 18, 1995Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 1995, 4:00 PM CST for Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 1995, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 1995, 10:00 PM CST
In force
6 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, 10.0 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 12:00Z on 1995-03-18Temperature 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 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 12:00Z on 1995-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 182134
FFWLCH
LAC055-190400-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING...VERMILION RIVER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
400 PM CST SAT MAR 18 1995
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FOR VERMILION RIVER AT LAFAYETTE...

AT 325 PM...THPE VERMILION RIVER AT LAFAYETTE WAS AT 11.5 FEET.
FLOOD STAGE IS 10 FEET. THE RIVER WILL CONTINUE A VERY SLOW FALL
THROUGH SUNDAY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 18, 2:00 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette6 hr
Mar 18, 8:00 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLCHLafayette6 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.