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River Flood Warning 68, NWS Lake Charles, LA

September 15, 2008Allen Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Sep 15, 2008, 10:04 AM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Sep 16, 2008, 5:21 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 15, 2008, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 16, 2008, 5:21 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 19, 2008, 8:52 AM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Flood severity: Minor

County Allen Parish, LA

The river

Written for the forecast point Calcasieu River near Kinder (KDRL1). The gauge peaked at 18.01 ft at Sep 17, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 13.5 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08015500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Sep 14, 2:59 PM CDT, 19 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 2:59 PM CDT, 19 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
259 PM CDT SUN SEP 14 2008

.SHORT TERM...
COLD FRONT CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA AND EXTENDED FROM
NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TO UPPER SOUTHEAST TEXAS COASTAL AREA.
LEADING EDGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PUSHED EAST OF THE
ATCHAFALAYA BASIN AND BACK END OF RAIN AREA SLOWLY ERODING NEAR
SABINE RIVER AS MOISTURE AXIS IS BECOMING ELONGATED FROM RAPIDLY
EXITING REMNANTS OF IKE INTO THE GREAT LAKES STATES AND DEVELOPING
LOW PRESSURE AREA ALONG LOWER TEXAS COAST. THE GFS MODEL WAS
AGGRESSIVE IN SPREADING COPIOUS RAINFALL NORTHWARD INTO THE
FORECAST AREA BUT THIS DOES NOT SEEM PLAUSIBLE BASED ON LATEST
SATELLITE TRENDS. OPTED TO GO WITH DRIER NAM SOLUTION THAT
ACKNOWLEDGED THE ELONGATION AND DEFORMATION OF MOISTURE AXIS THIS
AFTERNOON. MAY NEED TO MAINTAIN CLOUDINESS LONGER UNTIL THE UPPER
TROUGH AXIS SWINGS THROUGH LATE MONDAY. THEREAFTER...HIGH PRESSURE
SHOULD BUILD INTO THE REGION AND ONSET A MUCH NEEDED DRYING TREND.

&&

.LONG TERM...
AUTUMN-LIKE CONDITIONS EXPECTED AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS
IN PLACE WITH SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE WEEK
AND BELOW NORMAL RAIN CHANCES BEYOND TUESDAY.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
KLCH  70  82  64  83  63 /  50  20  20  20  10
KBPT  69  84  64  83  62 /  50  20  20  20  10
KAEX  67  82  59  82  58 /  40  10  20  20  10
KLFT  70  83  62  82  62 /  50  20  20  20  10

&&

.LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
LA...NONE.
TX...NONE.
GM...NONE.
&&

24/LIX

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 14, 11:46 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		38 hr
Sep 15, 2:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	44 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 gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.