Alert archive / Louisiana / Areal Flood Warnings in 2013
Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this areal flood warning at Jan 9, 2013, 10:03 AM CST for Lafayette Parish, Saint Landry Parish, Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 9 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 2013, 10:03 AM CST (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2013, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 9 days
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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 nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 282 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Jan 9, 5:55 AM CST, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 5:55 AM CST, 4 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 6:03 AM CST, 4 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 603 AM CST WED JAN 9 2013 LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 101200- VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY- CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN- VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN-WEST CAMERON- EAST CAMERON-TYLER-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE-NORTHERN JASPER- NORTHERN NEWTON-SOUTHERN JASPER-SOUTHERN NEWTON- 603 AM CST WED JAN 9 2013 ...WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH FLOODING POSSIBLE INTO THURSDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA INTO THURSDAY AS ALREADY SATURATED SOILS COMBINE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL TO PRODUCE THE THREAT OF FLOODING. URBAN AND RIVER FLOODING WILL BE A CONCERN INTO THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOW THREAT TODAY HOWEVER THEY CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH AND A WEAK SHORT LIVED TORNADO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY WITH FLOODING AND ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. THE SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT WITH RAIN ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST THURSDAY MORNING INTO FRIDAY MORNING. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA SATURDAY AS A WARM FRONT MOVES THROUGH. RAIN WILL REMAIN AROUND THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE COMING WEEK AS A COLD FRONT STALLS IN THE AREA. THIS WILL KEEP FLOODING A CONCERN THROUGH THE FORECAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED, HOWEVER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY HIGH RAINFALL TOTALS AND FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-101200- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-VERMILION BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 603 AM CST WED JAN 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY BEYOND 20 NAUTICAL MILES FROM SHORE AS WINDS AROUND 20 KNOTS OCCUR. SEAS OF 5 TO 7 FEET ARE ALSO EXPECTED. WINDS AND SEAS ARE EXPECTED TO SUBSIDE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 6:43 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 6:58 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:35 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 23 days |
| Jan 8, 8:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 9:03 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Cameron, Lafayette, Vermilion | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 2 hr |
| Jan 9, 3:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, St. Mary | 117 min |
| Jan 9, 5:17 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 9:37 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 min | |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 12 days |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 7 days |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis | 10 days |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis | 19 days |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard | 5 days |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen | 6 days |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen | 6 days |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen | 11 days |
| Jan 9, 10:19 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Jefferson Davis | 9 days |
| Jan 9, 10:30 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 60 min | |
| Jan 9, 11:30 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 60 min | |
| Jan 9, 12:28 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 62 min | |
| Jan 9, 1:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:23 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:52 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 min | |
| Jan 9, 2:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:40 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Cameron | 2 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:47 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 58 min | |
| Jan 9, 3:42 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 63 min | |
| Jan 9, 4:44 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Vernon | 61 min |
| Jan 9, 5:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 5:37 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 53 min |
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 sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.