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Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1998, 6:49 PM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 101 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
- Sep 16, 1998, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 101 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 162351 FFWLCH TXC241-170130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 649 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH INTO JASPER COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES OF TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN OVER JASPER COUNTY NEAR KIRBYVILLE. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. * FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD BE EXPECTED. SEVERAL ROADS IN THE KIRBYVILLE AREA MAY BE IMMPASSABLE DUE TO HIGH WATER. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROAD. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDONl IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.
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 Sep 16, 3:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 3:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 303 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1998 TROPICAL PLUME HAS FINALLY MOVED WEST OF AREA AND DRIER AIR HAS PROVIDED SOME RELIEF FROM FLOODING RAINS. EVEN SOME PEEKS OF SUN ACROSS THE AREA. SCATTERED CONVECTION HAS FIRED UP OVER ATCHAFALAYA BASIN AND MOVING WEST...SHOULD AFFECT AREA INTO THIS EVENING...WILL INCLUDE EVENING POPS TO COVER THIS ACTIVITY. MAIN INFLUENCE FOR THIS PERIOD WILL BE DEVELOPMENT OF TROPICAL SYSTEM IN EASTERN GULF. ETA AND NGM GENERALLY MOVE IT SLOWLY WEST NEAR NRN MEX BY 48 HRS...AVN PUTS IT IN CNTRL GULF. ALL MODELS ROTATING AREAS OF PRECIPITATION AROUND THE SYSTEM...WILL GO WITH INCREASING POPS THRU PERIOD WITH BETTER POPS OVER EASTERN PORTIONS. TIDES NOW RUNNING 2 TO 3 FEET ABOVE. AS EASTERLY WINDS INCREASE WITH DEVELOPING SYSTEM COASTAL FLOODING SHOULD AGAIN BECOME A PROBLEM BUT A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH SHOULD SUFFICE AT THIS POINT. TEMPS SHOULD TREND BACK DOWN AFTER TOMORROW AS CLOUDS AND RAIN INCREASE. 8 BPT 74/90/72/88 1324 LCH 73/90/72/88 1324 LFT 74/90/72/87 2445 AEX 68/90/68/88 1223
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-170300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 345 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1998 ...TROPICS REMAIN ACTIVE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO... A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO CHURN IN THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO. AN AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT HAS FOUND NO CLOSED CIRCULATION. THIS SYSTEM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST VERY SLOWLY. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT RESULTING IN THE FORMATION OF A TROPICAL DEPRESSION OR STORM AT ANY TIME. ALL INDIVIDUALS...INCLUDING MARINERS... ALONG THE COASTAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA NEED TO MONITOR THIS SITUATION VERY CLOSELY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLET FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING TROPICAL SYSTEM. T. ERICKSON
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-170300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 345 PM CDT WED SEP 16 1998 ...TROPICS REMAIN ACTIVE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO... A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO CHURN IN THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO. AN AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT HAS FOUND NO CLOSED CIRCULATION. THIS SYSTEM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST VERY SLOWLY. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT RESULTING IN THE FORMATION OF A TROPICAL DEPRESSION OR STORM AT ANY TIME. ALL INDIVIDUALS...INCLUDING MARINERS... ALONG THE COASTAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA NEED TO MONITOR THIS SITUATION VERY CLOSELY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLET FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING TROPICAL SYSTEM. T. ERICKSON
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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.