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River Flood Warning 70, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 12, 2008Jefferson County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Nov 12, 2008, 9:53 AM CST for Jefferson County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 13, 2008, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 12, 2008, 9:53 AM CST (15:53 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 13, 2008, 9:00 AM CST
Expired: Nov 13, 2008, 9:57 AM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Flood severity: Minor

County Jefferson County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 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 river

Written for the forecast point Neches River at Beaumont (BEAT2).

Action stage: 4 ft
Minor stage: 4 ft
Moderate stage: 7 ft
Major stage: 10 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Nov 12, 9:39 AM CST, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 9:39 AM CST, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 11, 9:19 PM CST	Flood Watch	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more	12 hr
Nov 12, 2:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	49 min
Nov 12, 2:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	39 min
Nov 12, 3:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	43 min
Nov 12, 4:04 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Calcasieu	3 hr
Nov 11, 11:27 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jefferson	12 days
Nov 12, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	28 min
Nov 12, 1:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	35 min
Nov 12, 1:57 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	2 hr
Nov 12, 3:04 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Jefferson, Orange	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.