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River Flood Warning 65, NWS Lake Charles, LA

May 8, 2025Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this river flood warning at May 8, 2025, 10:08 AM CDT for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at May 9, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 2025, 10:08 AM CDT (15:08 UTC)
In effect from
May 9, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
May 14, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
5 days
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Calcasieu Parish, LA

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 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 Calcasieu River at Sam Houston Jones State Park (LCRL1).

Action stage
3 ft
Minor stage
5 ft
Moderate stage
8 ft
Major stage
10 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 May 7, 5:50 PM CDT, 16 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 5:50 PM CDT, 16 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 12:18 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLCHAllen, Jefferson Davis5 days

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.