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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Mar 27, 2009, 5:06 AM CDT for Lafayette Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2009, 5:06 AM CDT (10:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2009, 8:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Vermilion River at Lafayette - Surrey Street (VLSL1).
- Action stage
- 10 ft
- Minor stage
- 10 ft
- Moderate stage
- 14 ft
- Major stage
- 16 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07386880, 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 Mar 27, 4:58 AM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 4:58 AM CDT, 8 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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| Mar 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 25 min | |
| Mar 26, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 118 min | |
| Mar 26, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 61 min | |
| Mar 26, 8:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 52 min | |
| Mar 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 55 min | |
| Mar 26, 10:19 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 56 min | |
| Mar 26, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 3:46 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 54 hr | |
| Mar 27, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Vernon | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Vernon | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 23 min |
| Mar 27, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Rapides | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Allen, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 28 min |
| Mar 27, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 61 min |
| Mar 27, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Hardin, Tyler | 29 min |
| Mar 27, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 49 min |
| Mar 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 60 min |
| Mar 27, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 26 min |
| Mar 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Orange | 62 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.