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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 18, 1998, 11:43 AM CDT for Hardin County, Jasper 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
- Oct 18, 1998, 11:43 AM CDT (16:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 1998, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:47 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLCH 181643 FFWLCH TXC199-241-181845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1143 AM CDT SUN OCT 18 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 1140 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS HARDIN AND SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTIES DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS . * FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SECONDARY ROADS CAN BE EXPECTED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE IN2TO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS 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 Oct 18, 9:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 9:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 913 AM CDT SUN OCT 18 1998 HEAVY RAIN TRAINING OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEGUN TO AFFECT EXTREME WESTERN PORTIONS OF FORECAST AREA. SATELLITE TRENDS SHOW FOCUS OF DEVELOPMENT SHIFTING DOWN THE TEXAS COAST NEAR CORPUS AREA. STILL FEEL COMFORTABLE LEAVING OUR SOUTHEAST TEXAS AREA OUT OF FFA UNTIL MAYBE TONIGHT...CAN HANDLE SITUATION TODAY WITH NOWCASTS. CAN BOOST UPPER SOUTHEAST TEXAS POPS...HARDIN...JASPER...NEWTON...TYLER TO CATEGORICAL AND ADD MENTION OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ALL ELSE LOOKS WELL. 8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 10:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Orange | 62 min |
| Oct 18, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Orange | 65 min |
| Oct 18, 4:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Orange | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.