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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2016, 5:01 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr. 2 reports 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, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 6:38 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 S Batson, TX | TXDOT REPORTS FM 770 CLOSED FROM HWY 105 TO LIBERTY COUNTY LINE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING |
| Jun 3, 12:10 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Beaumont, TX | BEAUMONT PUBLIC WORKS REPORTS THAT WESTGATE DRIVE AT NORWOOD DRIVE IS IMPASSABLE |
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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.
952
WGUS54 KLCH 022201
FFWLCH
TXC199-241-245-351-361-457-030600-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0052.160602T2201Z-160603T0600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
501 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...
NORTHWESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 100 AM CDT FRIDAY
* AT 459 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND GROUND RAINFALL REPORTS INDICATE
3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAINFALL...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO 9
INCHES...HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP WEST OF THE
AREA...AND EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE WARNING AREA THIS
EVENING. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING AND EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS
EVENING INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BEAUMONT...LUMBERTON...JASPER...SILSBEE...WOODVILLE...NEWTON...
KIRBYVILLE...KOUNTZE...SOUR LAKE...COLMESNEIL...NOME...THICKET...
FRED...SARATOGA...EBENEZER...BUNA...ROCKLAND...EVADALE...
CALL AND TOWN BLUFF.
ONCE THE THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE WEST MOVE OVER THE WARNED AREA...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH
ISOLATED HIGHER AMONUTS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3049 9469 3049 9454 3068 9458 3105 9437
3116 9391 3117 9374 3073 9373 3027 9389
2997 9421 3001 9444 3011 9445 3011 9460
3045 9472
$$
LANDRENEAUThe 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, 1:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson, Orange | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.