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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Lake Charles, LA

April 5, 2014Allen Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Apr 5, 2014, 8:17 PM CDT for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Apr 8, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 2014, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 8, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 9, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Allen Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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 Calcasieu River near Oberlin (OBCL1). The gauge peaked at 10.17 ft at Apr 6, 2014, 5:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08013500, 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 Apr 5, 8:04 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 8:04 PM CDT, 13 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
Apr 6, 9:46 AM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LCH		3 hr
Apr 6, 4:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides, Saint Landry and 1 more	13 hr
Apr 6, 6:15 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LCH		8 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2014 Every river flood warning in 2014

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.