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River Flood Warning 137, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Jul 15, 2019, 3:44 PM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; Newton County, Orange County, Texas. It took effect at Jul 16, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 21 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2019, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 16, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2019, 3:44 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 days
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Sabine River at Deweyville (DWYT2).
- Action stage
- 23 ft
- Minor stage
- 24 ft
- Moderate stage
- 26 ft
- Major stage
- 28 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08030500, 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 Jul 15, 3:37 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:37 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 14, 7:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 9:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 10:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 10:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Calcasieu | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 11:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 11:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Evangeline | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 11:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen | 3 days |
| Jul 14, 11:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Jefferson Davis | 4 days |
| Jul 14, 11:51 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | LCH | 28 hr | |
| Jul 14, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen, Calcasieu | 67 min |
| Jul 15, 12:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Calcasieu | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 1:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 2:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis | 8 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 4 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Avoyelles | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 6:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 6:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry | 4 hr |
| Jul 15, 7:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Saint Landry | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 5 days |
| Jul 15, 10:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu | 21 days |
| Jul 15, 12:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Avoyelles, Beauregard, Rapides, Vernon | 118 min |
| Jul 15, 2:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:44 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen | 72 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Allen | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 2:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.