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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. 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
- Jun 13, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 140030 FFWLCH TXC199-140230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 730 PM CDT THU JUN 13 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 SOUTHEAST TEXAS ...HARDIN COUNTY AT 725 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHERN HARDIN COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT PORTIONS OF WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY HAVE RECEIVED UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THOUGH THIS EVENING. THE AREA ALSO REMAINS UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM CDT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 303 PM CDT THU JUN 13 1996 LUKS LIKE WE MAY FINALLY GET A DECENT RAIN ACROSS THE FA. WEAK S/W WITH ASSOCIATED PVA WILL CONTINUE TO SLIDE SOUTH INTO THE FA TONIGHT AND ON FRIDAY. THIS COMBINED WITH THE ALREADY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AMS IN PLACE ACROSS THE FA WITH HELP TRIGGER THE RW/TRW ACTIVITY. WL LOOK FOR SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS WITH P.W. VALUES ALREADY AROUND 2 INCHES AND A LARGE PLUME OF MOISTURE HEADING THIS WAY FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. 10 LCH 75/89/73/89 4533 BPT 75/89/74/89 4533 AEX 71/87/72/90 5532 LFT 73/89/72/89 4533
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.