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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT for Hardin County, Jefferson County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jefferson County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
897
WGUS54 KLCH 211700
FFWLCH
TXC199-245-212000-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0033.160421T1700Z-160421T2000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1200 PM CDT THU APR 21 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
CENTRAL HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 1156 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED
HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ALONG PINE ISLAND BAYOU IN NORTHWEST
JEFFERSON AND SOUTHWEST HARDIN COUNTIES. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST
ACROSS BEAUMONT.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BEAUMONT...LUMBERTON...SILSBEE...KOUNTZE...SOUR LAKE...NOME...SARATOGA...
BEVIL OAKS AND CHINA.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...WALKER BRANCH...
BOGGY CREEK...WILLOW MARSH BAYOU... LITTLE PINE ISLAND
BAYOU...CYPRESS CREEK...BLACK CREEK...MILL CREEK... COTTON
CREEK...DRY CREEK...WILLOW CREEK...PINE ISLAND BAYOU.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
&&
LAT...LON 3034 9453 3045 9415 3025 9411 3024 9412
3022 9412 3020 9410 3019 9411 3016 9412
3015 9410 3014 9411 3013 9408 3011 9408
3008 9409 3007 9407 3002 9444 3011 9445
3011 9455
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Tyler | 4 days |
| Apr 21, 10:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Tyler | 62 min |
| Apr 21, 11:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Jasper, Orange | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Orange | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 12:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Jefferson | 59 min |
| Apr 21, 12:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Newton, Orange | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 3 days |
| Apr 21, 3:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Jasper, Newton, Orange | 24 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.