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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 28, 2025Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2025, 2:36 PM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 78 min. 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 28, 2025, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2025, 3:54 PM CDT
In force: 78 min
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 351 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 27, 6:22 PM CDT, 20 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 6:22 PM CDT, 20 hours 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		45 min
May 28, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Calcasieu	45 min
May 28, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Acadia, Saint Landry	46 min
May 28, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson Davis	28 min
May 28, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		56 min
May 28, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Allen, Evangeline, Saint Landry	28 min
May 28, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry	27 min
May 28, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		61 min
May 28, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Avoyelles	58 min
May 28, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LCH		63 min
May 28, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	St. Mary	48 min
May 28, 12:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Jefferson	46 min
May 28, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LCH	Orange	43 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.