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River Flood Warning 94, NWS Lake Charles, LA

October 10, 2020Beauregard Parish, Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana; Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Oct 10, 2020, 8:38 AM CDT for Beauregard Parish, Rapides Parish, Vernon Parish, Louisiana; Newton County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 10, 2020, 6:32 PM CDT. It was in force for 57 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 10, 2020, 8:38 AM CDT (13:38 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 10, 2020, 6:32 PM CDT
Expired: Dec 7, 2020, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 57 days
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Beauregard Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Newton County, TX

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Calcasieu River near Glenmora (GLML1). The gauge peaked at 18.13 ft at Oct 13, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08013000, 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 Oct 10, 7:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 7:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 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
Oct 9, 7:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	58 min
Oct 9, 8:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 2 more	6 hr
Oct 10, 12:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 3 more	12 hr
Oct 10, 1:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Lafayette, Rapides and 2 more	12 hr
Oct 10, 4:25 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	LCH		9 hr
Oct 10, 4:26 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	LCH	Cameron	9 hr
Oct 10, 4:31 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry, Vernon	2 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2020 River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2020 Every river flood 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.