River Flood Warning 90, NWS Lake Charles, LA

Issued

May 16, 2024, 9:47 AM CDT (14:47 UTC)

In effect from

May 17, 2024, 8:46 PM CDT

Expired

Jun 6, 2024, 9:47 AM CDT

In force

20 days

Issued by

NWS Lake Charles, LA

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

Minor

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:49 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 Bayou Nezpique at Basile (BSLL1). The gauge peaked at 23.61 ft at May 19, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT.

Action stage

22 ft

Minor stage

22 ft

Moderate stage

24 ft

Major stage

28 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08012000, 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 May 16, 7:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 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.