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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 9, 20164 counties in Texas; Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 9, 2016, 10:32 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas; Beauregard Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 6 hr. 9 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: Mar 9, 2016, 10:32 PM CST (04:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2016, 4:30 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX, Tyler County, TX

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 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
Mar 9, 10:39 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	10 N Burr Ferry, LA	LA 392 CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS BETWEEN LA 191 AND TORO RD DUE TO FLOODING
Mar 9, 10:45 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	1 Ene Bleakwood, TX	PUBLIC REPORTS FM 363 CLOSED BETWEEN KIRBYVILLE AND BLEAKWOOD DUE TO FLOODING.
Mar 9, 10:50 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	6 Ene Burr Ferry, LA	LA 464 CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS DUE TO FLOODING.
Mar 9, 10:59 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	5 Nnw Burr Ferry, LA	LA 111 CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS BETWEEN LA 8 AND LA 392.
Mar 9, 11:00 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	3 N Junction, LA	HWY 111 BETWEEN ELI FIELD ROAD AND LA 8 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.
Mar 9, 11:03 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Burkeville, TX	KJAS REPORTS THAT BURKEVILLE FIRE DEPT, NEWTON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT, AND TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE GAME WARDENS ARE INVOLVED IN A RESCUE OF A 90 YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM A FLOODED HOME IN BURKEVILLE
Mar 9, 11:30 PM CST	HEAVY RAIN 9.79	Toledo Bend Dam, TX	MESONET STATION TOLEDO BEND DAM /BKLT2/
Mar 10, 12:15 AM CST	HEAVY RAIN 6.54	5 W Merryville, LA	CO-OP OBSERVER STATION 2 ENE BON WIER /BWRT2/
Mar 10, 2:48 AM CST	FLASH FLOOD	3 Ne Leesville, LA	KPLC TV AND LA DOT REPORTS HWY 28 BETWEEN BELVIEW ROAD AND BAYOU DRIVE IN LEESVILLE IS CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS DUE TO FLOODING.

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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1704 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

403 
WGUS54 KLCH 100432
FFWLCH
LAC011-115-TXC199-241-351-457-101030-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0008.160310T0432Z-160310T1030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1032 PM CST WED MAR 9 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN VERNON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
  NORTHWESTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  TYLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
  NORTHEASTERN HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
  NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 430 AM CST THURSDAY

* AT 1028 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN
  CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF EAST TEXAS AND WEST CENTRAL
  LOUISIANA. 6 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN PARTS OF THIS
  AREA OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS...WITH WIDESPREAD FLOODING
  ONGOING AS A RESULT OF THE RAINFALL RECEIVED TODAY AND TONIGHT.   

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  JASPER...LEESVILLE...WOODVILLE...NEWTON...KIRBYVILLE...
  MERRYVILLE...ANACOCO...COLMESNEIL...CHESTER...FRED...BON WEIR...
  EBENEZER...ROCKLAND...BURKEVILLE...CALL...TOWN BLUFF...TOLEDO BEND
  DAM...WARREN...WILDWOOD AND FORT POLK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3103 9447 3116 9391 3117 9358 3120 9355
      3128 9353 3128 9344 3136 9339 3136 9303
      3088 9336 3060 9348 3050 9372 3052 9455
      3101 9465

$$

13

1 follow-up statement

354 
WGUS74 KLCH 100911
FFSLCH

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
311 AM CST THU MAR 10 2016

LAC011-115-TXC199-241-351-457-101030-
/O.CON.KLCH.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160310T1030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
VERNON LA-BEAUREGARD LA-TYLER TX-HARDIN TX-JASPER TX-NEWTON TX-
311 AM CST THU MAR 10 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 AM CST FOR
WESTERN VERNON AND NORTHWESTERN BEAUREGARD PARISHES...TYLER...
NORTHEASTERN HARDIN...JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES...

AT 309 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN INTO THE WARNED
AREA. 

ALTHOUGH HEAVY RAIN HAD SUBSIDED OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS, ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL IN THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE NEXT
COUPLE OF HOURS. AMOUNTS OF AROUND AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
JASPER...LEESVILLE...WOODVILLE...NEWTON...KIRBYVILLE...MERRYVILLE...
ANACOCO...COLMESNEIL...CHESTER...FRED...BON WEIR...EBENEZER...
ROCKLAND...BURKEVILLE...CALL...TOWN BLUFF...TOLEDO BEND DAM...
WARREN...WILDWOOD AND FORT POLK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3103 9447 3116 9391 3117 9358 3120 9355
      3128 9353 3128 9344 3136 9339 3136 9303
      3088 9336 3060 9348 3050 9372 3052 9455
      3101 9465

$$

TINGLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 10:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper	6 hr
Mar 10, 1:46 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Orange	13 days
Mar 10, 1:53 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Jefferson, Orange	12 days
Mar 10, 4:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler	8 hr
Mar 10, 9:01 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange	6 hr
Mar 10, 12:36 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	24 hr
Mar 9, 7:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	4 hr
Mar 9, 9:01 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	119 min
Mar 9, 9:18 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		27 hr
Mar 9, 11:09 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	5 hr
Mar 9, 11:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	5 hr
Mar 10, 4:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	8 hr
Mar 10, 5:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen, Evangeline, Rapides	45 min
Mar 10, 5:52 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		53 min
Mar 10, 6:38 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon	3 hr
Mar 10, 6:40 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	3 hr
Mar 10, 7:39 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Allen, Rapides, Vernon	5 hr
Mar 10, 7:51 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Rapides	24 min
Mar 10, 8:55 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	50 min
Mar 10, 11:25 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Cameron, Evangeline, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin and 1 more	3 hr
Mar 10, 11:43 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	47 min
Mar 10, 11:47 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LCH		28 min
Mar 10, 12:23 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	52 min
Mar 10, 1:20 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Saint Martin, St. Mary	31 days

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2016 Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2016 Every flash flood warning in 2016

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.