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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Lake Charles, LA

March 25, 2024Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 25, 2024, 4:19 PM CDT for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 3 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
Mar 25, 2024, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 2024, 6:58 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Vernon Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 323 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2024-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2024-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 413 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
413 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
485 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 11:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHAvoyelles31 min
Mar 25, 2:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon29 min
Mar 25, 2:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHBeauregard31 min
Mar 25, 2:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon34 min
Mar 25, 3:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon34 min
Mar 25, 3:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides38 min
Mar 25, 4:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides27 min
Mar 25, 4:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHVernon25 min
Mar 25, 4:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides36 min
Mar 25, 5:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides34 min
Mar 25, 6:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHRapides30 min
Mar 25, 1:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHNewton27 min
Mar 25, 1:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHNewton25 min

Nearby

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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.