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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 25, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 252332 FFWLCH LAC003-260130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 630 PM CDT FRI OCT 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...ALLEN PARISH AT 625 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF ALLEN PARISH DURING THE PAST HOUR. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE PARISH THIS EVENING. THIS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SECONDARY ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO REC|OGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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.
NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 25, 3:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 316 PM CST FRI OCT 25 1996 ETA SHOWS RIGHT REAR QUAD OF JETSTREAK OVR REGION WITH STG S/WV MOVG THRU THIS EVENING. VAD WINDS SHOW SOME SHEARING SO SVR A PSBLTY TNITE. MAIN WX PROBLEM WILL BE COPIOUS MSTR AND HVY RAINS. X-SECS HAVE STG UVV THRU DAYBREAK SAT. VIS STLT SHOWS GOOD CONVECTION OFF TX GULF COAST. AM CONCERNED WITH E CEN LA AS THETA AXIS OVERLAYS THAT AREA TNITE. TEMPS SHUD BE STEADY TNITE...PSBLY SLOLY RISING WITH WAA. WENT FOR HIR POPS ON SAT NITE DESPITE NVA DUE TO MDT TO STG INSTABILITY AND GOOD THETA AXIS. RDGG BUILDS OVR SE U.S. SO MAIN MSTR AREA WL GRADUALLY SHIFT W. 11 BPT 72/81/73/82 7453 LCH 70/82/72/82 7463 LFT 67/84/73/82 8553 AEX 67/82/71/84 8554
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 4 hr |
| Oct 24, 11:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson Davis | 2 hr |
| Oct 25, 7:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 4 hr |
| Oct 25, 5:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 118 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.