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River Flood Warning 34, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at May 12, 2013, 7:41 AM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at May 12, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2013, 7:41 AM CDT (12:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 12, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 13, 2013, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Beauregard Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 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 Bundick Creek at Bundick Lake (BKDL1).
- Action stage
- 96.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 97 ft
- Moderate stage
- 99 ft
- Major stage
- 100 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08014881, 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 May 11, 6:43 PM CDT, 12 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 6:43 PM CDT, 12 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Orange | 24 hr |
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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.