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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 20, 2015Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana; 4 counties in Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood watch at Mar 20, 2015, 10:25 PM CDT for Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 20, 2015, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 21, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Flood severity: None

Counties Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Mar 20, 6:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 6:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 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
Mar 20, 11:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	3 hr
Mar 21, 11:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	114 min
Mar 21, 12:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	88 min
Mar 21, 2:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	3 hr
Mar 21, 2:58 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	LCH	Saint Martin	18 days
Mar 21, 4:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	5 hr
Mar 20, 9:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Jasper, Newton, Tyler	3 hr
Mar 21, 10:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Jefferson	2 hr
Mar 21, 10:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jefferson	109 min
Mar 21, 12:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jefferson	3 hr
Mar 21, 3:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jefferson	117 min
Mar 21, 4:05 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	LCH		10 days

Nearby

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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.