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River Flood Warning 53, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Jan 25, 2023, 12:35 PM CST for Acadia Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2023, 12:35 PM CST (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 2023, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 47 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Mermentau River at Mermentau (MRML1). The gauge peaked at 4.06 ft at Jan 24, 2023, 9:00 PM CST.
- 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 Jan 25, 11:59 AM CST, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 11:59 AM CST, 36 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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| Jan 24, 6:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 24 min |
| Jan 24, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 21 min |
| Jan 24, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, St. Mary and 1 more | 74 min |
| Jan 24, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Lafayette, Vermilion | 27 min |
| Jan 24, 6:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 7:23 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 97 min | |
| Jan 24, 7:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 32 min |
| Jan 24, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 60 min |
| Jan 24, 8:58 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 32 min |
| Jan 24, 9:22 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Lafayette, Vermilion | 13 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:55 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Allen | 21 days |
| Jan 25, 10:25 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LCH | Jefferson | 24 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:33 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jefferson | 21 days |
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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.