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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA

February 12, 2013Lafayette Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Feb 12, 2013, 9:12 AM CST for Lafayette Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 37 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 12, 2013, 9:12 AM CST (15:12 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2013, 10:40 PM CST
In force: 37 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
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 15:15 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 Vermilion River at Lafayette - Surrey Street (VLSL1). The gauge peaked at 10.40 ft at Feb 12, 2013, 5:00 AM CST.

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 Feb 11, 5:41 PM CST, 15 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 5:41 PM CST, 15 hours 31 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
Feb 12, 9:06 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Saint Landry	24 hr
Feb 12, 11:52 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	3 days
Feb 12, 11:52 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	70 hr
Feb 12, 11:52 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	7 days
Feb 12, 11:52 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen, Jefferson Davis	70 hr
Feb 12, 11:52 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion	70 hr
Feb 12, 7:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	22 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2013 Every river flood warning in 2013

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.