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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 8, 2002Iberia Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 8, 2002, 11:24 AM CDT for Iberia Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2002, 11:24 AM CDT (16:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2002, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Iberia Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -473 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KLCH 081624
FFWLCH
LAC045-113-081915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1122 AM CDT MON APR 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
  IBERIA PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 1118 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 
  THAT NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF 
  VERMILION AND IBERIA PARISHES DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS. 1 TO 2 
  INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS 
  POSSIBLE...ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 2 PM. THERE ARE 
  REPORTS OF WATER IN HOMES IN THE MAURICE AREA...WITH NUMEROUS 
  ROADS IMPASSABLE DUE TO HIGH WATER AROUND VERMILION AND IBERIA.

CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT FLOODING TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3006 9179 2973 9183 2968 9223 3006 9222

$$

LGE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	56 min
Apr 8, 3:09 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		111 min
Apr 8, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard	54 min
Apr 8, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	66 min
Apr 8, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Rapides	52 min
Apr 8, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis	51 min
Apr 8, 4:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	65 min
Apr 8, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen	30 min
Apr 8, 10:14 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
Apr 8, 2:06 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		69 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.