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WGUS54 KLCH 131127
FFWLCH
LAC001-003-019-023-039-053-113-131300-
/O.NEW.KLCH.FF.W.0076.160813T1127Z-160813T1300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
627 AM CDT SAT AUG 13 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  WESTERN VERMILION PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  ALLEN PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  SOUTHWESTERN EVANGELINE PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
  SOUTHEASTERN CALCASIEU PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  NORTHWESTERN ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT

* AT 624 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT TWO TO SIX
  INCHES HAS ALREADY FALLEN WITH AN ADDITIONAL THREE TO SIX INCHES
  POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT TWO TO FOUR HOURS. FLASH FLOODING IS
  EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY IN AREAS THAT HAVE SEEN THE MOST
  RAINFALL OVERNIGHT.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  JENNINGS...OAKDALE...WELSH...IOWA...LAKE ARTHUR...KINDER...
  BASILE...OBERLIN...ELTON...MERMENTAU...ELIZABETH...FENTON...
  MITTIE...ROCKEFELLER WILDLIFE RANGE...
  LACASSINE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE...HAYES...GRAND CHENIER...
  KLONDIKE...GRANT AND BULLER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

&&

LAT...LON 2966 9284 2976 9309 3060 9300 3060 9298
      3088 9297 3088 9283 3089 9282 3088 9258
      2958 9259

$$

K. KUYPER