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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT for 8 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 6 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
- Aug 14, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2016, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:51 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Abbeville, LA | PHOTO OF FLOODING ON HOLLINGSWORTH DRIVE IN ABBEVILLE SENT IN VIA TWITTER |
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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted.
909
WGUS54 KLCH 140700
FFWLCH
LAC001-023-045-055-097-099-101-113-141300-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0084.160814T0700Z-160814T1300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
200 AM CDT SUN AUG 14 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
NORTHWESTERN ST. MARTIN PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
IBERIA PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
NORTHWESTERN ST. MARY PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
EASTERN ST. LANDRY PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
SOUTHEASTERN ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
LAFAYETTE PARISH IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 800 AM CDT SUNDAY
* AT 157 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AT
TIMES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
FALLEN IN THE PAST SIX HOURS AND ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAINFALL IS FORECAST TO MOVE INLAND FROM THE GULF OVERNIGHT. FLASH
FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LAFAYETTE...NEW IBERIA...ABBEVILLE...CATAHOULA...SCOTT...
BREAUX BRIDGE...ST. MARTINVILLE...JEANERETTE...KAPLAN...
FORKED ISLAND...INTRACOASTAL CITY...CYPREMORT POINT...
ROCKEFELLER WILDLIFE RANGE...PECAN ISLAND...AVERY ISLAND...
BROUSSARD...YOUNGSVILLE...ERATH...DELCAMBRE AND DUSON.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 2962 9202 2962 9204 2961 9205 2952 9198
2958 9205 2967 9288 3029 9215 3025 9199
3049 9170 3044 9164 2975 9166 2971 9184
2961 9178 2971 9185 2970 9186 2954 9172
2948 9181 2951 9190 2944 9183
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:02 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 88 min | |
| Aug 14, 6:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 7:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 7:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis and 5 more | 9 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.