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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 17, 2003Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 17, 2003, 10:50 PM CST for Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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: Nov 17, 2003, 10:50 PM CST (04:50 UTC)
Expired: Nov 18, 2003, 2:45 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hardin County, TX, Tyler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 877 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KLCH 180451
FFWLCH
TXC199-457-180845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1050 PM CST MON NOV 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 245 AM CST

* AT 1045 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
  ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS TYLER AND 
  HARDIN COUNTIES DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS. THIS RAINFALL IS IN 
  ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAINS THAT FELL MONDAY AFTERNOON. ANOTHER 
  PAIR OF LINES OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS THE 
  AREA THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS...AND 1 TO 2 INCHES OF 
  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

TYLER COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT FLOODING AROUND WOODVILLE AND 
WARREN...WITH SOME ROADS IMPASSABLE. HARDIN COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT 
MINOR FLOODING IN THE COMMUNITIES OF VILLAGE MILLS...KOUNTZE AND 
SILSBEE...WHERE ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY FORCE THE 
CLOSURE OF SOME ROADS.

HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATERS OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROAD. MOST 
FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

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

LAT...LON 3099 9425 3020 9412 3015 9457 3109 9468

$$

LGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 17, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	65 min
Nov 17, 10:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin	65 min
Nov 17, 11:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Tyler	36 min
Nov 17, 11:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	49 min
Nov 18, 12:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	34 min
Nov 18, 12:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson	24 min
Nov 18, 12:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Newton	34 min
Nov 18, 12:47 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson	28 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.