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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this areal flood warning at Mar 14, 2016, 4:17 AM CDT for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. 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 14, 2016, 4:17 AM CDT (09:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2016, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Rapides Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 947 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 13, 5:55 PM CDT, 10 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 5:55 PM CDT, 10 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 4:57 AM CDT, 23 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 457 AM CDT SUN MAR 13 2016 LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262- 141130- 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- 457 AM CDT SUN MAR 13 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 SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS INTO THE OZARKS AND MAY KICK OFF AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR STORM ACROSS PORTIONS OF VERNON...RAPIDES AND AVOYELLES PARISHES DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. IF ANY STORM DEVELOPS...IT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AND A MARGINAL RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS HAS BEEN OUTLINED FOR THAT AREA. ELSEWHERE...NO SIGNIFICANT SHOWER ACTIVITY OR RAINFALL IS EXPECTED. RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE. A RECORD FLOOD WAVE WILL BE MOVING DOWN THE LOWER SABINE RIVER AND BE AT ITS PEAK IN THE BON WIER AREA TODAY. MAJOR FLOODING IS ALSO EXPECTED ALONG THE CALCASIEU RIVER BASIN AND MODERATE FLOODING ALONG THE LOWER NECHES RIVER BASIN...WITH MANY OTHER RIVERS EXPERIENCING MINOR FLOODING. FOR ALL INFORMATION ON THE RIVER FLOODING AND IMPACTS PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AT NEWFLSLCH OR LOOK AT THE WFO LAKE CHARLES AHPS PAGE AT: WATER.WEATHER.GOV/AHPS2/INDEX.PHP?WHO=LCH .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION AND WEDNESDAY AND STALL THAT WILL HELP BRING A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY UNTIL ANOTHER MORE SIGNIFICANT COLD FRONT CLEARS THE REGION ON SATURDAY. IT IS TOO EARLY AT THIS TIME TO TELL HOW MUCH RAINFALL WILL OCCUR DURING THIS TIME PERIOD AND HOW IT WILL AFFECT THE RIVER BASINS. RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE. A RECORD FLOOD WAVE WILL BE MOVING DOWN THE LOWER SABINE RIVER REACHING ITS PEAK IN THE DEWEYVILLE AREA ON TUESDAY AND ORANGE BY LATE WEEK. MAJOR FLOODING IS ALSO EXPECTED ALONG THE CALCASIEU RIVER BASIN AND MODERATE FLOODING ALONG THE LOWER NECHES RIVER BASIN...WITH MANY OTHER RIVERS EXPERIENCING MINOR FLOODING. FOR ALL INFORMATION ON THE RIVER FLOODING AND IMPACTS PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AT NEWFLSLCH OR LOOK AT THE WFO LAKE CHARLES AHPS PAGE AT: WATER.WEATHER.GOV/AHPS2/INDEX.PHP?WHO=LCH .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-141130- 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- 457 AM CDT SUN MAR 13 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. RUA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 6 hr |
| Mar 14, 3:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 24 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 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.