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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this areal flood warning at Mar 11, 2016, 12:21 PM CST for 4 parishes in Louisiana; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr. 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 11, 2016, 12:21 PM CST (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2016, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, 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), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Mar 11, 11:34 AM CST, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 11:34 AM CST, 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 11, 4:58 AM CST, 7 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 458 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2016 LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 121200- VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY- CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN- VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN-WEST CAMERON- EAST CAMERON-TYLER-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE-NORTHERN JASPER- NORTHERN NEWTON-SOUTHERN JASPER-SOUTHERN NEWTON- 458 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...EAST CENTRAL TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SIGNIFICANT STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO AFFECT THE REGION WITH ONGOING FLOODING ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL FLOODING TO THE REST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OF 8 TO 12 INCHES ACROSS EAST TEXAS...WESTERN AND NORTH LOUISIANA HAS RESULTED IN MODERATE TO MAJOR FLOODING ACROSS MOST RIVER SITES ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. NOTEWORTHY IS THE RECORD POOL LEVELS AND RELEASES AT TOLEDO BEND...WITH RECORD FLOODING IMMEDIATELY DOWNSTREAM THE SABINE RIVER AT BURKEVILLE. MAJOR FLOODING IS ONGOING AND WILL CONTINUE FURTHER DOWN THE SABINE AT BON WIER...AND EXPECTED TO BREAK THE RECORD LEVEL AT DEWEYVILLE BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MUCH IMPROVED WEATHER IS EXPECTED DURING THE DAY SATURDAY AS THE ENTIRE STORM SYSTEM LIFTS NORTHEAST OF THE REGION. NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WITH A POSSIBLE FRONTAL SURFACE LOW OVER THE NORTHWEST GULF WILL INCREASE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANGES BY LATE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION REQUESTED FOR TODAY. GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-121200- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-VERMILION BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM CAMERON LA TO HIGH ISLAND TX FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 458 AM CST FRI MAR 11 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SLOWLY SUBSIDING SEAS WILL CONTINUE AS WINDS DIMINISH TODAY. THE CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MUCH IMPROVED WEATHER IS EXPECTED DURING THE DAY SATURDAY AS THE ENTIRE STORM SYSTEM LIFTS NORTHEAST OF THE REGION. NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WITH A POSSIBLE FRONTAL SURFACE LOW OVER THE NORTHWEST GULF WILL INCREASE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANGES BY LATE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION REQUESTED FOR TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 10:11 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:18 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 87 min | |
| Mar 11, 1:44 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 91 min | |
| Mar 11, 2:00 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Vermilion | 60 min |
| Mar 11, 2:40 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LCH | 84 min | |
| Mar 11, 2:40 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | LCH | 12 hr | |
| Mar 11, 2:49 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 56 min |
| Mar 11, 2:55 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 65 min | |
| Mar 11, 10:35 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 17 days |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2016Areal Flood Warnings in Texas, 2016Every areal flood warning in 2016
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.