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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 2007, 2:16 AM CDT for Acadia Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. 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
- Sep 13, 2007, 2:16 AM CDT (07:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2007, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KLCH 130717
FFWLCH
LAC001-053-131115-
/X.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0004.070913T0716Z-070913T1115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
216 AM CDT THU SEP 13 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MERMENTAU...
JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WELSH...LAKE ARTHUR...JENNINGS...
FENTON...ELTON...
* UNTIL 615 AM CDT
* AT 210 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LACASSINE...ROANOKE AND HATHAWAY.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED
AREA.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3020 9258 3010 9262 3005 9272 3005 9297
3005 9297 3010 9287 3015 9287 3017 9299
3039 9301 3040 9312 3044 9312 3044 9279
3049 9276 3049 9262
$$
06The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 10:44 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 22 hr |
| Sep 12, 10:44 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 22 hr |
| Sep 12, 10:56 PM CDT | Inland Tropical Storm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon | 14 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:59 AM CDT | Inland Hurricane Warning | LCH | 5 hr | |
| Sep 13, 2:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 4:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vermilion | 30 min |
| Sep 13, 4:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Vermilion | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 4 days |
| Sep 13, 9:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 11 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 6 days |
| Sep 13, 9:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:49 PM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:41 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Martin | 2 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.