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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 1998, 1:39 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 14, 1998, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1998, 3:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, TX, Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 2712 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -123 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 141840 FFWLCH TXC245-361-142040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 139 PM CDT FRI AUG 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 340 PM CDT * AT 135 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS JEFFERSON AND ORANGE COUNTIES DURING THE PAST 2 HOURS. 2 TO 4 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS . * FLOODING OF ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS IS EXPECTED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVER S THE ROAD TO UNKNOWN DEPTHS. THE DEPTH OF THE WATER MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. REMEMBER...MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
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 Aug 14, 9:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 9:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 959 AM CDT FRI AUG 14 1998 OFFSHORE ACTIVITY EXTENDING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL LA IS PERSISTING AND SHOWING SOME SIGNS OF BACKBUILDING. UPPER LOW OFF SOUTHEAST TX COAST SHUD HELP SUSTAIN THIS ACTIVITY. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE IS PRETTY HIGH OVER THIS AREA BUT WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS. TEMPS WILL BE QUITE A BIT COOLER TODAY WITH CLOUDS AND RAIN...MAYBE EVEN COOLER THAN FORECAST IN SOME AREAS. SE TX ZONES LOOK OK. COULD BOOST POPS IN SOUTH CENTRAL LA AND LOWER TEMP TO MID 80S. 8
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.