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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 16, 2006, 2:33 PM CDT for Hardin County, Jasper County, Tyler 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 2006, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2006, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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, 7.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 560 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 719 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 11.5
- Supercell composite
- 47.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KLCH 161937
FFWLCH
TXC199-241-457-162230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
233 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 228 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING WITH THUNDERSTORMS
LOCATED FROM THICKET TO TOWN BLUFF TO JASPER AND SAM RAYBURN DAM.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO TO FOUR INCHES
OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL TWO
TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
HILLISTER...WOODVILLE...IVANHOE BY 235 PM CDT
SPURGER BY 240 PM CDT
TOWN BLUFF BY 245 PM CDT
MAGNOLIA SPRINGS BY 255 PM CDT
JASPER...ROGANVILLE BY 305 PM CDT
HOLLY SPRINGS BY 310 PM CDT
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS RAPIDLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE WHERE WATERS OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROAD.
DURING HEAVY RAINS...STAY AWAY FROM DRAINAGE DITCHES...BAYOUS AND
CREEKS. THEY ARE PRONE TO RAPID RISES AND MAY FLOOD THE AREA QUICKLY.
CALL 337-477-5285 TO REPORT FLOODING TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3097 9464 3048 9452 3048 9473 3023 9463
3057 9390 3093 9387 3114 9392
$$
MLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 9:03 PM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 26 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Oct 16, 5:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 30 min |
| Oct 16, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 3 hr |
| Oct 16, 5:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Orange | 27 min |
| Oct 16, 5:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Oct 16, 6:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 2 hr |
| Oct 16, 6:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Orange | 16 min |
| Oct 16, 6:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 30 min |
| Oct 16, 6:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin | 31 min |
| Oct 16, 6:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 35 min |
| Oct 16, 7:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 51 min |
| Oct 16, 7:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Oct 16, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 50 min |
| Oct 16, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 13 min |
| Oct 16, 1:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Newton | 3 hr |
| Oct 16, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 26 min |
| Oct 16, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 37 min |
| Oct 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 3 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.