Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Shreveport, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER AND FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
730 AM CDT MON JUN 9 1986

LOW AREA FLOODING CONTINUES TO DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF NORTH
EAST TEXAS...ACROSS THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF LOUISIANA...INCLUDING THE
SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY METROPOLITAN AREA INTO THE IMMEDIATE ADJACENT
AREA OF SOUTH ARKANSAS.

REPORTS THROUGH 7 AM THIS MORNING AND RADAR INDICATIONS ARE THAT FROM
TWO TO OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED OVER PARTS OF SHELBY
AND PANOLA COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF
HARRISON AND ACROSS PARTS OF CADDO...BOSSIER...WEBSTER ALONG WITH
NORTHERN DESOTO AND WESTERN CLAIBORNE PARISHES IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
INCLUDING THE SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY METROPOLITAN AREA.

SEVERAL STREETS IN THE SHREVEPORT BOSSIER CITY AREA ARE FLOODING IN
LOW AREAS...AND NO DOUBT SOME ROADWAY FLOODING IS DEVELOPING IN LOW
AREAS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ACROSS EXTREME
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA.

MOTORIESTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROAD
WAYS..BE AWARE OF RISING WATER IN LOW AREAS DUE TO POSSBLE SMALL
STREAM OVERFLOW.

ALTHOUGH THE RAINFALL RATE HAS BEEN MAINLY MODERATE DURING THE NIGHT
OVER THE AREA...THE COMBINATION OF TWO TO OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN
OVER THE PAST FIVE HOURS ALONG WITH SATURATED GROUND AND ABOVE NORMAL
FLOWS ON AREA STREAMS WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT OF LOW AREA FLOODING
THIS MORNING AS RAIN AND SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE SAME GENERAL
AREA.

AT 730 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS
SHOWING A 40 MILE WIDE AREA OF NUMEORUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDER
STORMS FROM CAMDEN IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ACROSS THE MAGNOLIA AREA..
SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE SHREVEPORT AREA TO NORTHWEST OF CENTER TEXAS.

MOVMENT CONTINUES NORTHEAST ACROSS THE SAME GENERAL AREA THUS RAINFALL
TOTALS OF OVER THREE INCHES AND POSSIBLY FOUR WILL HAVE OCCURRED BY
9AM THIS MORNING.