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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 13, 1998, 1:27 PM CST for Beauregard 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 13, 1998, 1:27 PM CST (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 1998, 3:25 PM CST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beauregard Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 131929 FFWLCH LAC011-132125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 127 PM CST TUE JAN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES LA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA ...BEAUREGARD PARISH NATIONAL WEATHER DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING ACROSS BEAUREGARD PARISH. RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS HAVE TOTALED NEAR 4 INCHES SINCE THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS FURTHER INCREASING THE FLASH FLOODING POTENTIAL. DURING HEAVY RAINS...STAY AWAY FROM DRAINAGE DITCHES...BAYOUS... AND CREEKS. THEY ARE PRONE TO RAPID RISES AND MAY FLOOD THE AREA QUICKLY. REMEMBER FLOODING IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF WEATHER RELATED DEATHS.
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 13, 9:50 AM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 9:50 AM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 950 AM CST TUE JAN 13 1998 BUSY MORNING WITH THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING INLAND OVER MOST OF FA. BOUNDRY LOCATED OVER CENTRAL SECTIONS OF SE TX...EXTENDING INTO NORTHERN LA NOT MAKING MUCH PROGRESS. WITH SHOWERS AND THUDNERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG COASTAL SECTIONS OF SE TX AND MOVING INLAND... SUGEST PUTTING SE TX BACK INTO FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND INCREASING POPS OVER HARDIN...TYLER...JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES TO 50% CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. 12
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 13, 11:51 AM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1151 AM CST TUE JAN 13 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1125 AM SPURGER TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/13/98 TYLER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
IN SPURGER BY SHERRIFFS.Local storm report, Jan 13, 12:37 PM CST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1237 PM CST TUE JAN 13 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1217 PM SOUTH OF KIRBYVILLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/13/98 JASPER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
JUST SOUTH OF KIRBYVILLE BY
SHERIFFS.Local storm report, Jan 13, 12:37 PM CST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1237 PM CST TUE JAN 13 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1217 PM SOUTH OF KIRBYVILLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/13/98 JASPER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
JUST SOUTH OF KIRBYVILLE BY
SHERIFFS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.