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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 25, 1996Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 25, 1996, 7:20 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 3 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, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 19 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 367 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 260022
FFWLCH
LAC019-260330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
720 PM CDT FRI OCT 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   CALCASIEU PARISH
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS EXTENDED
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CALCASIEU PARISH UNTIL 1030 PM.
3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS CALCASIEU PARISH
SINCE THIS AFTERNOON...FLOODING MANY ROADS IN THE LAKE
CHARLES AREA. TRAVEL IS NOT ADVISED IN THE LAKE CHARLES AREA
TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE
DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...MAKING DRIVING CONDITIONS EVEN WORSE.
ONCE AGAIN...TRAVEL IS NOT ADVISED IN THE LAKE CHARLES AREA TONIGHT.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
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, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 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.
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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 25, 9:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis	3 hr
Oct 25, 10:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Lafayette	60 min
Oct 25, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette	60 min
Oct 25, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	46 min
Oct 25, 11:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Saint Landry, Saint Martin	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.