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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 13, 2024Newton County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this areal flood warning at May 13, 2024, 9:06 AM CDT for Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 72 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: May 13, 2024, 9:06 AM CDT (14:06 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2024, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 72 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Newton County, TX

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2954 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 5.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at May 13, 7:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 7:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 13, 4:31 AM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 5:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 5:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 5:29 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 6:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 6:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 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
May 12, 9:45 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	LCH	Allen	13 hr
May 12, 9:45 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Vernon	6 days
May 13, 4:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Vernon	29 min
May 13, 5:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen	30 min
May 13, 5:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	33 min
May 13, 5:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	LaSalle	16 min
May 13, 6:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Evangeline	28 min
May 13, 6:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Saint Landry	13 min
May 13, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	21 days
May 13, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	21 days
May 13, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard	7 days
May 13, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion	21 days
May 13, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Evangeline, Saint Landry	47 hr
May 13, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen, Jefferson Davis	21 days
May 13, 10:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LCH	Allen	21 days
May 13, 2:36 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	LCH	Vernon	22 hr
May 13, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	32 min
May 13, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	29 min
May 13, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	61 min
May 13, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		56 min
May 13, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron	54 min
May 13, 3:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	5 hr
May 13, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Cameron, Jefferson Davis	7 min
May 13, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	37 min
May 13, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	61 min
May 13, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline	56 min
May 13, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron, Vermilion	54 min
May 13, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		53 min
May 13, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	26 min
May 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Allen, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry	64 min
May 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	34 min
May 13, 5:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Evangeline	5 hr
May 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	34 min
May 13, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LCH	Acadia, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Vermilion	42 min
May 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Cameron, Vermilion	67 min
May 13, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
May 13, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis	13 min
May 13, 5:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry	5 hr
May 13, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LCH	Acadia, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion	44 min
May 13, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Acadia, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry	43 min
May 13, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Martin	24 min
May 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		97 min
May 13, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin	35 min
May 13, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LCH	Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Martin	64 min
May 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Acadia, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Vermilion	3 hr
May 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	15 min
May 13, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Iberia	27 min
May 13, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	20 min
May 13, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Iberia, St. Mary	47 min
May 13, 2:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Tyler	27 min
May 13, 2:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Tyler	28 min
May 13, 2:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	32 min
May 13, 3:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jasper, Newton	32 min
May 13, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	31 min
May 13, 4:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Newton	30 min
May 13, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	26 min
May 13, 2:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin	5 hr
May 13, 2:36 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	LCH	Hardin	21 hr
May 13, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	28 min
May 13, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Hardin	32 min
May 13, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Newton	5 hr
May 13, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Orange	42 min
May 13, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson	57 min
May 13, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jasper, Newton	10 min
May 13, 4:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LCH	Jasper, Tyler	3 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 sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.