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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 25, 2015Hardin County, Jasper County, Orange County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this areal flood warning at Mar 25, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT for Hardin County, Jasper County, Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 7 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
Mar 25, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Apr 1, 2015, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
7 days
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Orange County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 405 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2015-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 702 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2015-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
702 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 11:13 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHHardin47 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Texas, 2015Every areal flood warning in 2015

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.