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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 10, 2016Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 2016, 4:40 AM CST for Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 8 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2016, 4:40 AM CST (10:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2016, 12:45 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 10, 7:33 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Leesville, LA	PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING IN THE LEESVILLE AREA

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1704 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.7

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The text

As transmitted.

786 
WGUS54 KLCH 101040
FFWLCH
LAC011-115-101845-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0013.160310T1040Z-160310T1845Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
440 AM CST THU MAR 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
  NORTHERN BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...

* UNTIL 1245 PM CST THURSDAY
    
* AT 439 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING AND
  IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS MORNING.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  LEESVILLE...ROSEPINE...MERRYVILLE...ANACOCO...PITKIN...DE RIDDER...
  FORT POLK...SINGER...SLAGLE...DERIDDER...NEW LLANO...LACAMP...
  BIVENS...CRAVENS...HUTTON...FULLERTON...KURTHWOOD...TULLA...
  JUNCTION AND BANCROFT.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3133 9291 3132 9290 3103 9284 3068 9318
      3051 9371 3058 9373 3059 9368 3066 9367
      3069 9362 3076 9361 3083 9355 3089 9357
      3093 9353 3099 9358 3103 9351 3109 9356
      3127 9353 3128 9344 3137 9323 3137 9303

$$

TINGLER

1 follow-up statement

056 
WGUS74 KLCH 101539
FFSLCH

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
939 AM CST THU MAR 10 2016

LAC011-115-101845-
/O.CON.KLCH.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160310T1845Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
VERNON LA-BEAUREGARD LA-
939 AM CST THU MAR 10 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 PM CST
THURSDAY FOR VERNON AND NORTHERN BEAUREGARD PARISHES...

AT 931 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF
RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED. ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IS EXPECTED IN THE WARNED 
AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LEESVILLE...ROSEPINE...MERRYVILLE...ANACOCO...PITKIN...DE RIDDER...
FORT POLK...SINGER...SLAGLE...DERIDDER...NEW LLANO...LACAMP...
BIVENS...CRAVENS...HUTTON...FULLERTON...KURTHWOOD...TULLA...JUNCTION
AND BANCROFT.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3133 9291 3132 9290 3103 9284 3068 9318
      3051 9371 3058 9373 3059 9368 3066 9367
      3069 9362 3076 9361 3083 9355 3089 9357
      3093 9353 3099 9358 3103 9351 3109 9356
      3127 9353 3128 9344 3137 9323 3137 9303

$$

K. KUYPER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 7:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	4 hr
Mar 9, 9:01 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	119 min
Mar 9, 9:18 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		27 hr
Mar 9, 10:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	6 hr
Mar 9, 11:09 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	5 hr
Mar 9, 11:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	5 hr
Mar 10, 1:46 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	13 days
Mar 10, 5:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen, Evangeline, Rapides	45 min
Mar 10, 5:52 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		53 min
Mar 10, 6:38 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	3 hr
Mar 10, 6:40 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	3 hr
Mar 10, 7:39 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Allen, Rapides, Vernon	5 hr
Mar 10, 7:51 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	24 min
Mar 10, 8:55 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	50 min
Mar 10, 11:25 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Cameron, Evangeline, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin and 1 more	3 hr
Mar 10, 11:43 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	47 min
Mar 10, 11:47 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		28 min
Mar 10, 12:23 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	52 min
Mar 10, 12:36 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Rapides, Vernon	24 hr
Mar 10, 1:20 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Saint Martin, St. Mary	31 days

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.