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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2016, 1:42 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 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
- Jun 2, 2016, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2016, 4:45 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 18:44 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:59 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Jasper, TX | TXDOT REPORTS FLOODING ON FM 777 AS WELL AS FM 1013 NEAR BUNA AND KIRBYVILLE. |
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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.
466
WGUS54 KLCH 021842
FFWLCH
TXC199-241-351-457-022145-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0050.160602T1842Z-160602T2145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
142 PM CDT THU JUN 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
* AT 140 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THREE TO EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN
HAVE FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
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 3049 9454 3101 9466 3106 9456 3103 9447
3116 9391 3118 9354 3109 9356 3103 9351
3100 9358 3094 9353 3089 9357 3082 9356
3054 9374 3044 9370 3033 9376 3025 9371
3024 9412 3021 9410 3015 9461 3049 9473
$$
JONESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 58 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson, Newton, Orange | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:59 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin | 5 days |
| Jun 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson, Orange | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 8 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.