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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 7, 2019Saint Martin Parish, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2019, 12:02 PM CDT for Saint Martin Parish, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 118 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2019, 12:02 PM CDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2019, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 2462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 6, 6:20 PM CDT, 17 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 6:20 PM CDT, 17 hours 42 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
Jun 6, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	39 min
Jun 7, 10:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	St. Mary	41 min
Jun 7, 11:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LCH	Saint Martin, St. Mary	117 min
Jun 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron	67 min
Jun 7, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Martin	44 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.