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River Flood Warning 10, NWS Lake Charles, LA

February 11, 2025Vernon Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Feb 11, 2025, 1:15 PM CST for Vernon Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Feb 12, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 68 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 11, 2025, 1:15 PM CST (19:15 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 12, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 15, 2025, 2:00 PM CST
In force
68 hr
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Vernon Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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 river

Written for the forecast point Bayou Anacoco near Rosepine (RPIL1). The gauge peaked at 16.67 ft at Feb 15, 2025, 1:00 AM CST.

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Action stage
17 ft
Minor stage
17 ft
Moderate stage
21 ft
Major stage
24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08028000, 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 11, 11:47 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 11:47 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 9:42 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLCHAcadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, St. Mary and 1 more12 hr
Feb 11, 9:15 AM CSTRiver Flood WatchLCHRapides21 days
Feb 11, 1:15 PM CSTRiver Flood WatchLCHBeauregard, Calcasieu16 hr
Feb 11, 1:15 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningLCHRapides23 days
Feb 11, 1:21 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningLCH54 min
Feb 11, 1:22 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLCHCalcasieu23 min
Feb 11, 2:04 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementLCHJefferson Davis41 min
Feb 11, 2:40 PM CSTFlood WatchLCHAllen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides, Vernon27 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2025Every river flood warning in 2025

Sources

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.