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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Feb 12, 2024, 9:26 AM CST for Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Feb 12, 2024, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 21 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2024, 9:26 AM CST (15:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2024, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2024, 9:26 AM CST
- In force
- 21 days
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Rapides Parish, LA
The river
Written for the forecast point Calcasieu River near Glenmora (GLML1). The gauge peaked at 14.43 ft at Feb 16, 2024, 2:00 AM CST.
- Action stage
- 12 ft
- Minor stage
- 12 ft
- Moderate stage
- 16 ft
- Major stage
- 18 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08013000, 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 Feb 12, 5:36 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 5:36 AM CST, 3 hours 50 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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| Feb 11, 6:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 33 min |
| Feb 11, 6:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Avoyelles, Rapides | 15 min |
| Feb 11, 6:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Rapides | 29 min |
| Feb 11, 6:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 16 min |
| Feb 11, 7:00 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 45 min | |
| Feb 11, 7:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, St. Mary, Vermilion | 40 min |
| Feb 11, 7:38 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 67 min | |
| Feb 11, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 41 min |
| Feb 11, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 20 min |
| Feb 11, 8:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Avoyelles | 42 min |
| Feb 11, 9:03 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Landry | 42 min |
| Feb 11, 9:17 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 28 min |
| Feb 11, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin | 19 min |
| Feb 11, 10:41 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 34 min | |
| Feb 11, 10:50 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 55 min |
| Feb 11, 11:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 45 min |
| Feb 11, 11:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 32 min |
| Feb 11, 11:18 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 44 min | |
| Feb 12, 12:00 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 60 min | |
| Feb 12, 12:30 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LCH | St. Mary | 45 min |
| Feb 12, 12:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 55 min | |
| Feb 12, 12:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 28 min |
| Feb 12, 12:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Saint Martin, St. Mary | 8 min |
| Feb 12, 1:18 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 42 min | |
| Feb 12, 2:08 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LCH | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more | 16 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:25 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LCH | 25 hr | |
| Feb 12, 2:33 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LCH | 27 min | |
| Feb 12, 12:03 PM CST | Low Water Advisory | LCH | 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 gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.