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Flood Watch 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flood watch at Oct 25, 2006, 4:14 AM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana; Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 25, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 42 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2006, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 25, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2006, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Allen Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Oct 24, 9:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 9:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 6:26 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 49 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 42 hr |
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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.