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River Flood Warning 61, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Aug 27, 2020, 10:02 AM CDT for Acadia Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 14 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2020, 10:02 AM CDT (15:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2020, 9:07 AM CDT
- In force
- 14 days
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Moderate
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The river
Written for the forecast point Mermentau River at Mermentau (MRML1). The gauge peaked at 5.56 ft at Aug 31, 2020, 9:00 PM CDT.
- 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 for site 08012150, 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 Aug 27, 6:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 6:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 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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| Aug 26, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 35 min |
| Aug 26, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 35 min |
| Aug 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron, Vermilion | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 35 min |
| Aug 26, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Vermilion | 34 min |
| Aug 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Cameron | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 10:53 PM CDT | Extreme Wind Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Vermilion | 25 min |
| Aug 26, 11:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 11:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 26, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, St. Mary, Vermilion | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 12:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 2 more | 43 min |
| Aug 27, 12:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, St. Mary, Vermilion | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 12:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 9 hr |
| Aug 27, 12:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis and 5 more | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 12:54 AM CDT | Extreme Wind Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin | 33 min |
| Aug 27, 2:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Rapides, Vernon | 8 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 2:58 AM CDT | Extreme Wind Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vernon | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 4:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 13 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin | 4 days |
| Aug 27, 9:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 9:43 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Rapides | 12 days |
| Aug 27, 9:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard | 4 days |
| Aug 27, 9:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Beauregard, Vernon | 10 hr |
| Aug 27, 9:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 9:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry | 5 days |
| Aug 27, 10:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Rapides, Vernon | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 10:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 10:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 39 min |
| Aug 27, 1:13 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 6 hr | |
| Aug 27, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 4:14 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | LCH | Cameron | 17 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 3 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 5 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.