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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 13, 1999, 2:15 AM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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
- Mar 13, 1999, 2:15 AM CST (08:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1999, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 892 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Mar 13, 1:15 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 1:15 AM CST, 1 hour before
SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 115 AM CST SAT MAR 13 1999 SHORT TERM...SVR WX/HVY RAINFALL GOOD BET ACROSS ENTIRE CWA UNTIL FRONT PASSES. CURRENTLY COMPUTED LI -4 OR GREATER...HELICITY VALUES NEAR 350 AND CAPE BETWEEN 1200-1600 OVER SW LA AND SE TX. WILL FOLLOW MESO ETA SOLUTION FOR PASSAGE OF FRONT...WHICH SHOULD BE NEAR BPT AT 12Z...AEX TO LFT LINE AT 15Z AND EAST OF CWA AROUND 18Z. GOOD CAA BEHIND FRONT WILL DROP TEMPS DURING THE DAY. 540 THICKNESS DROPS INTO LAKES AREA OF TX ACROSS CENTRAL LA BY 12Z SUN. WILL KEEP CLOUDS IN FORECAST THRU SUN AFTN AS THIS WILL BE THE TIME 850 TROF MOVES EAST OF AREA AND LOWER RH MOVES IN. COASTAL FLOOD WATCH WILL BE DROPPED AS TIDES RUNNING BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS AND NEXT HIGH TIDES WILL NOT OCCUR UNTIL AFT WINDS HAVE SHIFTED TO THE NW. BPT CE 68 (FALL 57)/43/53/34 6(EARLY)000 LCH CE 66 (FALL 56)/43/53/33 8(EARLY)000 LFT CE 65 (FALL 57)/45/53/33 9(MORNING)000 AEX CE 62 (FALL 52)/40/50/29 9(MORNING)000 7
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 12, 9:55 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
955 PM CST FRI MAR 12 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0940 PM CHESTER TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/12/99 TYLERLocal storm report, Mar 12, 11:07 PM CST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1107 PM CST FRI MAR 12 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1035 PM TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/12/99 TYLERLocal storm report, Mar 12, 11:26 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1126 PM CST FRI MAR 12 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1035 PM WOODVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/12/99 TYLER POWERLINES DOWNLocal storm report, Mar 12, 11:44 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1144 PM CST FRI MAR 12 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1132 PM JASPER TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/12/99 JASPERLocal storm report, Mar 13, 1:42 AM CST, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
142 AM CST SAT MAR 13 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0122 AM ANACOCO LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/13/99 VERNONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 1:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Vernon | 64 min |
| Mar 13, 8:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Evangeline | 63 min |
| Mar 13, 8:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Saint Landry | 33 min |
| Mar 13, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 47 min |
| Mar 13, 12:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 46 min |
| Mar 12, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 62 min |
| Mar 12, 10:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 66 min |
| Mar 12, 10:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 61 min |
| Mar 12, 11:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 62 min |
| Mar 13, 12:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Tyler | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Tyler | 3 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 64 min |
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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.