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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1997, 7:37 AM CDT for Saint Martin Parish, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 4 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 18, 1997, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1997, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 181238 FFWLCH LAC099-101-181645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 737 AM CDT WED JUN 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...LOWER ST. MARTIN PARISH...ST. MARY PARISH AT 735 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO REDEVELOP...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH OVER LOWER ST MARTIN AND ST MARY PARISHES. THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF PRECIPITATION HAS OCCURRED OVER THE LAST THREE HOURS IN THE COMMUNITIES OF BALDWIN...FRANKLIN...PATTERSON AND MORGAN CITY IN ST MARY PARISH. WITH THIS ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS... FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
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 18, 2:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 252 AM CDT WED JUN 18 1997 ACTVTY FIRED UP TONITE OVR S CNTRL LA...HAS DROPPED SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN IN MORGAN CITY AREA. THETA-E RDG XTNDS THRU SE TX ACROSS SRN LA THRU 36 HRS. FFA TO BE REINSTATED IN PARISHES EAST OF LFT. H5 TROF CONTINUES SLOW TREK EWRD W/ VORT MAX SHEARING OUT ALONG EAST COAST INTO SE TX 24-36 HRS. CHC POPS LOOK GOOD OVR AREA THRU 36 HRS WHEN AREA COMES UNDER NVA. TEMPS TDA SHUD BE HELD DOWN ABT LIKE YDA IN CLDS AND RAIN. 8 BPT 88/74/90 424 LCH 88/74/89 424 LFT 87/74/89 635 AEX 87/71/89 323
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 11:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 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.