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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Apr 28, 2009, 3:47 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2009, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2009, 9:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Calcasieu Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Calcasieu River at Saltwater Barrier (LCHL1).
- Action stage
- 4 ft
- Minor stage
- 4 ft
- Moderate stage
- 6 ft
- Major stage
- 8 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 Apr 28, 3:27 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 3:27 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 28, 2:58 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 27, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 114 min | |
| Apr 27, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 17 min |
| Apr 27, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 23 min |
| Apr 27, 10:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Calcasieu | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 10:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 87 min | |
| Apr 28, 12:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 18 min |
| Apr 28, 12:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 67 min | |
| Apr 28, 1:32 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 118 min | |
| Apr 27, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 8:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 28 min |
| Apr 27, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 54 min |
| Apr 27, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 19 min |
| Apr 27, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 16 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.