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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 1996, 11:56 PM CDT for Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 1996, 11:56 PM CDT (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Sep 26, 8:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 8:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 815 PM CDT THU SEP 26 1996 KLCH RADAR NOT INDICATING ANY ACTIVITY WITH FA...HOWEVER TSTMS DEV ELOPING AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN CENTRAL TEXAS AND THIS MAY AFFECT SE TX ZONES TOWARDS EARLY MORNING HOURS. BELIEVE POPS CAN BE REDUCED SLIGHTLY OVER LA AS ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE TOMORROW AHEAD OF CF. 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 68 min |
| Sep 27, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Tyler | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 5:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Tyler | 115 min |
| Sep 27, 5:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin | 69 min |
| Sep 27, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 47 min |
| Sep 27, 8:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 115 min |
| Sep 27, 9:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 10:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 4 hr |
| Sep 27, 11:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson, Orange | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.