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River Flood Warning 124, NWS Lake Charles, LA

December 28, 2018Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Dec 28, 2018, 8:42 AM CST for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 28, 2018, 8:42 AM CST (14:42 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2018, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 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 river

Written for the forecast point Calcasieu River at Saltwater Barrier (LCHL1).

Action stage: 4 ft
Minor stage: 4 ft
Moderate stage: 6 ft
Major stage: 8 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 27, 5:30 PM CST, 15 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 5:30 PM CST, 15 hours 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 27, 11:42 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Avoyelles, Cameron, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette and 4 more	4 hr
Dec 28, 8:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	20 days
Dec 28, 8:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	21 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2018 Every river flood warning in 2018

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.