River Flood Warning 18, NWS Lake Charles, LA

Issued

Jan 26, 2024, 8:03 AM CST (14:03 UTC)

In effect from

Jan 26, 2024, 10:53 AM CST

Expired

Jan 26, 2024, 12:53 PM CST

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Lake Charles, LA

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

Minor

Counties Lafayette Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 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.

Written for the forecast point Vermilion River at Lafayette - Surrey Street (VLSL1). The gauge peaked at 10.30 ft at Jan 27, 2024, 8:00 AM CST.

Action stage

10 ft

Minor stage

10 ft

Moderate stage

14 ft

Major stage

16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07386880, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 25, 3:22 PM CST, 16 hours 41 minutes earlier.

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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.