River Flood Warning 55, NWS Lake Charles, LA

Issued

May 6, 2025, 10:45 AM CDT (15:45 UTC)

In effect from

May 7, 2025, 8:45 AM CDT

Expired

May 12, 2025, 3:13 AM CDT

In force

5 days

Issued by

NWS Lake Charles, LA

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

Minor

Counties Acadia Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:45 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 Des Cannes near Eunice (BDCL1). The gauge peaked at 18.08 ft at May 9, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT.

Action stage

14 ft

Minor stage

16 ft

Moderate stage

18 ft

Major stage

21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08010000, 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 6, 10:24 AM CDT, 21 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.