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River Flood Warning 76, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 13, 2009Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Dec 13, 2009, 4:46 AM CST for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 13, 2009, 4:46 AM CST (10:46 UTC)
Expired: Dec 14, 2009, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 19 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 10:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 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 Dec 13, 1:34 AM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 1:34 AM CST, 3 hours 12 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
Dec 12, 10:00 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more	11 hr
Dec 13, 1:27 AM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LCH		8 hr
Dec 13, 9:21 AM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LCH		3 hr
Dec 13, 3:04 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 3 more	20 hr
Dec 13, 3:09 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LCH		23 hr
Dec 13, 3:33 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin	48 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.