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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this areal flood warning at Apr 18, 2016, 8:14 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 12 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
- Apr 18, 2016, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2016, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 18, 5:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 5:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 18, 5:14 AM CDT, 15 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 514 AM CDT MON APR 18 2016 GMZ435-LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216- 259>262-191015- VERMILION BAY-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- 514 AM CDT MON APR 18 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF GULF OF MEXICO...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MODERATE TO OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAINS RETURN TO SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND TO A LESSER DEGREE SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA TODAY AND TONIGHT AS SEVERAL DISTURBANCE BEGIN TO EJECT OUT OF THE UPPER LOW INTO OUR AREA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL REMAIN ELEVATED TODAY...HELPING MAINTAIN ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS ALONG THE COAST. A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL LIFT OUT TO THE NORTH LEAVING BEHIND ABUNDANT MOISTURE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THURSDAY. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT CURRENTLY FORECAST...A FEW STRONG STORMS DURING THE PERIOD CANNOT BE RULED OUT AS DISTURBANCES MOVE AROUND THE BASE OF THE LARGER LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GMZ430-432-450-452-455-470-472-475-191015- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE- 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- 514 AM CDT MON APR 18 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT THIS MORNING AS SOUTHEAST WINDS REMAIN ELEVATED DUE TO A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO RATCHET DOWN ACROSS THE INLAND LAKES AND BAYS THIS AFTERNOON WHERE SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WILL BE IN EFFECT. THE REMAINDER OF THE COASTAL WATERS WILL SEE WINDS DROPOFF THIS AFTERNOON FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AS WE ENTER INTO THE EVENING PERIOD. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ONSHORE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO TAPER OFF THROUGH THE THURSDAY. A WEAK COOL FRONT WILL ENTER THE GULF WATERS ON FRIDAY WITH OFFSHORE WINDS LASTING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. SOUTHERLY FLOW RETURNS LATER IN THE DAY SATURDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL HOLD OVER THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 18, 3:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
327 PM CDT MON APR 18 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0324 PM FLASH FLOOD 2 NNE CALL 30.64N 93.86W
04/18/2016 NEWTON TX DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
WATER OVER SEVERAL ROADS SOUTHEAST OF
KIRBYVILLE.
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JBSpecial weather statement, Apr 18, 4:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 1 more | 82 min |
| Apr 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 111 min | |
| Apr 18, 7:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 12 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:06 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 54 min | |
| Apr 18, 10:18 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | LCH | 9 hr | |
| Apr 19, 7:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Orange | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Orange | 24 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 4 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.