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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Lake Charles, LA

February 19, 2025Allen Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at Feb 19, 2025, 9:03 PM CST for Allen Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Feb 20, 2025, 10:17 PM CST. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 19, 2025, 9:03 PM CST (03:03 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 20, 2025, 10:17 PM CST
Expired: Feb 22, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Allen Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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 river

Written for the forecast point Calcasieu River near Oberlin (OBCL1).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08013500, 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 19, 5:36 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 5:36 PM CST, 3 hours 27 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
Feb 19, 7:30 PM CST	Low Water Advisory	LCH		15 hr
Feb 20, 1:58 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	LCH	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more	31 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.