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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 12, 1998, 7:47 AM CST for Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 118 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
- Jan 12, 1998, 7:47 AM CST (13:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1998, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Landry Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -666 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 121349 FFWLCH LAC097-121545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 747 AM CST MON JAN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...ST. LANDRY PARISH AT 745 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE MIDNIGHT OVER PORTIONS OF ST. LANDRY PARISH. HIGHWAY 190 BETWEEN LAWTELL AND OPELOUSAS IS FLOODED WITH REPORTS OF CARS STRANDED ON THAT ROADWAY. ALSO...NUMEROUS STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE OPELOUSAS AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. REMEMBER...MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATLEST INFORMATION ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
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 Jan 12, 2:20 AM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 2:20 AM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 220 AM CST MON JAN 12 1998 BUSY NIGHT AS CONVERGENCE ZONE LIES ACROSS CEN LA AND VORT MAX ENHANCES LIFT WITH SUBTROPICAL JET STREAM OVERHEAD. RAINFALL AMTS ARE BEGINNING TO PILE UP ACROSS NORTHERN PORTION OF FA AND DEVELOPMENT STILL OCCURRING BACK TO THE SW...MAY NEED FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR MORNING HOURS. PWS ARE RUNNING ABOVE ONE INCH AND RADAR ESTIMATES SHOWING STRONG STORMS PUTTING DOWN AS MUCH AS 2 INCHES AN HOUR. HAVE A LITTLE MORE TIME TO CONSIDER THIS SO WILL COORD LATER. AS FAR AS FORECAST...MESSY SITUATION SETTING UP AS AREA IS IN AXIS OF A SERIES OF SHRT WVS WITH AMPLE SUBTROPICAL JET ENERGY PRESENT. MODELS ARE UNDERFORECASTING RAINFALL AMTS CONSIDERABLY AND DO NOT LOOK GOOD FOR THE FIRST PART OF TODAY. SFC TROF/STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN TX IS NOT SHOWING MUCH EASTWARD PROGRESSION...SO WILL KEEP POPS IN CHC CAT TODAY AREAWIDE. WILL LIKELY NEED TO CONTINUE MENTION OF POSSIBLY SVR STORMS THIS MORNING AREAWIDE. 1 BPT 71/62/70 5355 LCH 70/61/70 5355 LFT 72/61/72 5355 AEX 68/58/68 7344
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 1:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 50 min |
| Jan 12, 1:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 47 min |
| Jan 12, 1:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 33 min |
| Jan 12, 2:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen | 29 min |
| Jan 12, 2:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 45 min |
| Jan 12, 2:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 117 min |
| Jan 12, 2:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 117 min |
| Jan 12, 2:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 62 min |
| Jan 12, 3:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 47 min |
| Jan 12, 3:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 62 min |
| Jan 12, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 61 min |
| Jan 12, 4:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline | 4 hr |
| Jan 12, 5:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 4 hr |
| Jan 12, 5:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 2 hr |
| Jan 12, 7:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 119 min |
| Jan 12, 8:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia | 119 min |
| Jan 12, 9:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 3 hr |
| Jan 12, 9:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 3 hr |
| Jan 12, 9:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Saint Landry | 2 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.