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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 27, 20164 counties in Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2016, 4:36 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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: May 27, 2016, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 2178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.7

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The text

As transmitted.

705 
WGUS54 KLCH 272136
FFWLCH
TXC199-241-351-457-280030-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0046.160527T2136Z-160528T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
436 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 432 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FOUR TO SIX INCHES OF RAINFALL
  HAS FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  BEAUMONT...LUMBERTON...SILSBEE...KIRBYVILLE...KOUNTZE...
  SOUR LAKE...THICKET...FRED...SARATOGA...BUNA...EVADALE...CALL...
  WILDWOOD...VOTAW...VILLAGE MILLS...CANEY HEAD...OLD SALEM...
  TROUT CREEK...WRIGHTS SETTLEMENT AND MT. UNION.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

&&

LAT...LON 3049 9473 3049 9453 3056 9455 3084 9376
      3056 9372 3054 9374 3052 9372 3044 9371
      3037 9377 3011 9444 3011 9460

$$

K. KUYPER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jefferson, Tyler	52 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	60 min
May 27, 5:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Tyler	59 min
May 27, 5:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	59 min
May 27, 6:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	57 min
May 27, 6:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Newton	61 min
May 27, 7:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Jasper, Newton, Orange	58 min
May 27, 9:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jefferson	20 days
May 27, 12:06 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH		6 hr
May 27, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	41 min
May 27, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	37 min
May 27, 1:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	5 hr
May 27, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton, Tyler	60 min
May 27, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	67 min
May 27, 3:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton, Tyler	3 hr
May 27, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Newton, Orange	55 min
May 27, 6:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler	6 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.