Scattered storms in central Louisiana produced flooding Rapides Parish.
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The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
Scattered storms in central Louisiana produced flooding Rapides Parish.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 28, 5:22 AM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lake Charles LA 622 AM CDT Thu May 28 2026 ...New AVIATION... .KEY MESSAGES... - Scattered showers and storms remain possible through this afternoon while a Marginal Risk of excessive rainfall remains for greater portions of Southwest LA through tonight. - Humid and muggy weather will continue for the rest of the week and into the weekend. - Precipitation chances will remain modest to middling through early next week with the potential of scattered storms to develop each afternoon. && .DISCUSSION... (Today through Wednesday) Issued at 1256 AM CDT Thu May 28 2026 A negatively tilted trough with a semi broad upper level gradient will begin to lift across Arkansas through tonight allowing another scattered round of precip over portions of the forecast guidance. Wednesday's convection offshore has largely stabilized the lower atmosphere per recent LCH 28th/OOZ sounding. Patchy fog during the dawn hours today is possible inland, but lack of radiational cooling and some mixing above the surface layer should mitigate that. Latest HiRes guidance suggests some destabilization will occur north of the TX / LA coastline through the early dawn hours, but trends in those solutions appear to be overdone. However, as the sun begins to mix the low levels despite mostly cloudy skies, areas of scattered showers / storms are favorable to develop along the I-49 corridor through the late morning hours today from the Lower Atchafalaya. Lingering chances for isolated to scattered storms remain in the forecast Friday across much of SWLA, while SETX appears to entrain drier air from the west. With more direct sunshine in the forecast, temperatures will trend toward the upper 80s for highs. Weak upper level ridging strengthens keeping chances of rainfall very isolated toward the Atchafalaya into Saturday while highs trend warmer. Portions of interior SETX and SWLA will top out near 90F. Similarly, evening lows, will trend further into the low 70s further inland. Sunday the upper level pattern begins to smooth out, still containing some small perturbations aloft per deterministic models suggesting broader extent of isolated chances of storms carrying across Louisiana into portion of eastern Texas. A week stationary boundary develops north of the forecast area and slowly drifts offshore through Tuesday morning. Building high pressure descending from the Great Lakes further decreases these chances Wednesday. Key take away here is that the forecast is now trending away from excessive rainfall to a more early summer like pattern which is on par with the start of Meteorological Summer. Kowalski / 30 && .AVIATION... (12Z TAFS) Issued at 617 AM CDT Thu May 28 2026 Scattered showers rotating across central and south central Louisiana around an upper level low over east Texas. These showers will have the potential to affect the KAEX/KLFT/KARA terminals through 28/16z with mainly MVFR ceilings and visibilities. Later in the day, some daytime heating pop-up showers or storms will be possible over the same locations so will have VCTS at the KAEX/KLFT/KARA terminals after 28/16z. Any convection that develops is expected to dissipate after sunset or 29/01z. 07/Rua && .MARINE... Issued at 1256 AM CDT Thu May 28 2026 Variable winds gentle breezes through this afternoon as the trough axis lifts into the MS Valley this evening. Much of the impactful weather will be out of the region. For the rest of the week and into the weekend, high pressure off the eastern seaboard will keep the general flow southerly with background winds around 10 to 15 knots. && .FIRE WEATHER... Issued at 1256 AM CDT Thu May 28 2026 Multiple rounds of heavy rain have helped drop the KBDI down into the low 100s with some locations below 50. Forecast trended slightly lower for precip chances today and Friday as upper level disturbance shifts eastward. Overall, persistent southern flow will keep dew points in the 70s with minimum RH values above 60%. Winds will be from the south with 20 foot winds around 10 mph. && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...None. TX...None. GM...None. && PUBLIC/FIRE/MARINE...30 AVIATION...07
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:44 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flood water on Jackson Street trapped a driver. Elliot street was also closed from flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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