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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 3, 2024Hardin County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 2024, 11:51 AM CDT for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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 3, 2024, 11:51 AM CDT (16:51 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2024, 5:01 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Hardin County, TX

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 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

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2024-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2024-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at May 3, 6:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 6:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 9:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
915 AM CDT Fri May 3 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0730 AM     Lightning        8.25 WSW Beaumont       30.04N 94.27W
05/03/2024                   Jefferson          TX   Broadcast Media

            Lightning struck a home causing a house fire
            on Pine Island Road. No injuries occurred.

&&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 2:39 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH36 min
May 3, 3:04 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH26 min
May 3, 3:28 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH32 min
May 3, 3:52 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH23 min
May 3, 4:28 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH32 min
May 3, 4:56 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH34 min
May 3, 5:50 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH25 min
May 3, 6:06 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH24 min
May 3, 6:19 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLCH26 min
May 3, 4:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin30 min
May 3, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin25 min
May 3, 4:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin30 min
May 3, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin, Jasper37 min
May 3, 5:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin27 min
May 3, 5:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHHardin26 min
May 3, 5:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jasper3 hr
May 3, 7:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson, Orange3 hr
May 3, 8:39 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jasper, Orange, Tyler24 hr
May 3, 12:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLCHOrange34 min
May 3, 2:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson, Orange3 hr

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.