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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2016, 12:34 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. 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
- Jun 2, 2016, 12:34 PM CDT (17:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2016, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 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), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1712 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted.
544
WGUS54 KLCH 021734
FFWLCH
LAC011-115-022030-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0049.160602T1734Z-160602T2030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1234 PM CDT THU JUN 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 1231 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO THE WARNED AREA. THREE TO EIGHT INCHES OF
RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LEESVILLE...ROSEPINE...MERRYVILLE...ANACOCO...DE RIDDER...
DRY CREEK...PITKIN...RAGLEY...FORT POLK...FIELDS...SUGARTOWN...
SINGER...SLAGLE...DERIDDER...DEQUINCY...NEW LLANO...LACAMP...
CRAVENS...HUTTON AND FULLERTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN
DEPTHS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM STORM DRAINS...CULVERTS...CREEKS AND STREAMS.
WATER LEVELS CAN RISE RAPIDLY AND SWEEP CHILDREN AWAY.
&&
LAT...LON 3132 9288 3122 9283 3088 9291 3088 9298
3060 9298 3060 9313 3041 9313 3041 9339
3049 9339 3049 9349 3040 9349 3040 9374
3044 9370 3065 9368 3093 9353 3100 9358
3103 9351 3109 9356 3125 9352 3136 9301
$$
ERICKSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Cameron, Evangeline, Lafayette and 4 more | 58 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 8 days |
| Jun 2, 12:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 58 min | |
| Jun 2, 1:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 55 min | |
| Jun 2, 2:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:27 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 93 min | |
| Jun 2, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Acadia, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 88 min |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Vermilion | 90 min |
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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.