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Hurricane Warning 1026, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 7, 202010 parishes in Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this hurricane warning at Oct 7, 2020, 10:13 PM CDT for 10 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 54 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 7, 2020, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired
Oct 10, 2020, 4:25 AM CDT
In force
54 hr
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA

Counties Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this hurricane 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 hurricane warning went out at Oct 7, 6:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 6:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 7, 10:13 PM CDTStorm Surge WarningLCHCameron, Saint Martin54 hr
Oct 7, 10:13 PM CDTTropical Storm WarningLCHAllen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Cameron, Evangeline, Lafayette and 4 more54 hr
Oct 8, 10:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAcadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis21 days
Oct 8, 10:33 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAcadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry6 days
Oct 8, 10:34 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHLafayette, Saint Martin, Vermilion69 hr
Oct 8, 10:34 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHCalcasieu21 days
Oct 8, 10:34 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard21 days
Oct 8, 10:35 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHCalcasieu21 days
Oct 8, 10:35 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAllen, Beauregard21 days
Oct 8, 10:36 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAcadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion21 days
Oct 8, 10:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAllen21 days
Oct 8, 10:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAllen, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis21 days
Oct 8, 10:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHLafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin72 hr
Oct 8, 10:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAllen, Rapides21 days
Oct 8, 1:54 PM CDTRiver Flood WatchLCHBeauregard22 hr
Oct 8, 2:03 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHBeauregard, Vernon21 days
Oct 8, 2:35 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Orange43 hr

Nearby

Hurricane Warnings in Louisiana, 2020Hurricane Warnings in Texas, 2020Every hurricane warning in 2020

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.