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Areal Flood Warning 9, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this areal flood warning at Apr 19, 2016, 1:16 PM CDT for Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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 19, 2016, 1:16 PM CDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2016, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 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 19, 1:04 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:04 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 4:25 AM CDT, 8 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 425 AM CDT TUE APR 19 2016 GMZ435-LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055-073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216- 259>262-200930- 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- 425 AM CDT TUE APR 19 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 RAINS HAVE TAPERED OFF THIS MORNING AS THE ATMOSPHERE TAKES A BREATHER. LOOKING FOR STORMS TO REDEVELOP LATE THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STORM ACTIVITY ENDING LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STRONGER STORMS TODAY MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. GMZ430-432-450-452-455-470-472-475-200930- 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- 425 AM CDT TUE APR 19 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF GULF OF MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WINDS TO DIMINISH THIS MORNING BUT CHANCES FOR STORMS TO CONTINUE. STORMS EXPECTED DURING THE LATE MORNING TO AFTERNOON TIMEFRAME. CLOUD TO WATER LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STORM ACTIVITY ENDING LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
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 18, 8:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton | 12 hr |
| Apr 19, 7:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Orange | 6 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.