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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 26, 1997, 12:05 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 115 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
- Oct 26, 1997, 12:05 AM CDT (05:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1997, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 260507 FFWLCH LAC019-260700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1205 AM CDT SUN OCT 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ...CALCASIEU PARISH AT 1200 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICTATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUALLY MOVING ACROSS THE LAKE CHARLES AREA. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF ROADS BEING COVERED WITH A FOOT OF WATER ON THEM...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHERN LAKE CHARLES. AS MUCH AS THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN WILL OCCUR AROUND LAKE CHARLES BEFORE THE RAIN TAPERS OFF BY 2 AM. 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. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. ERICKSONN &
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, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 145 AM CST SUN OCT 26 1997 TEST TEST 06 BPT LCH LFT AEX
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.