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Flood Watch 2, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flood watch at May 22, 2026, 1:04 PM CDT for 16 parishes in Louisiana; 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 22, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2026, 1:04 PM CDT (18:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 22, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 25, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Flood severity
- None
All 22 counties
Acadia Parish, LA, Allen Parish, LA, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Beauregard Parish, LA, Calcasieu Parish, LA, Cameron Parish, LA, Evangeline Parish, LA, Iberia Parish, LA, Jefferson Davis Parish, LA, Lafayette Parish, LA, Rapides Parish, LA, Saint Landry Parish, LA, Saint Martin Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Vermilion Parish, LA, Vernon Parish, LA, Hardin County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Tyler County, TX
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 308 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at May 22, 6:27 AM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:27 AM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 13 min |
| May 22, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 45 min |
| May 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LCH | Saint Martin | 30 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.