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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT for Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 9:30 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 E Sour Lake, TX | NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTS FLOODING OFF OF STATE HIGHWAY 105 BETWEEN BEVIL OAKS AND SOUR LAKE. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
072
WGUS54 KLCH 170000
FFWLCH
TXC199-245-170300-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0013.150417T0000Z-150417T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
700 PM CDT THU APR 16 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
CENTRAL HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 659 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
KOUNTZE...NOME...BEVIL OAKS AND CHINA.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3012 9444 3011 9439 3012 9436 3053 9434
3053 9426 2996 9423 2987 9434 2987 9436
2989 9436 2989 9443 3004 9445
$$
RUAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 8:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Orange | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 9:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 9 days |
| Apr 17, 10:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson, Orange | 9 days |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.