Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1986, 7:50 PM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1986, 7:50 PM CST (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1986, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cass County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Rusk County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 526 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 040155 FFWSHV TXC401-183-203-315-067-040500- BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 750 PM CST MON FEB 3 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHWEST RUSK...GREGG...WESTERN HARRISON...MARION AND CASS. AT 750 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS SHOWING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND THE NORTHWEST TIP OF LOUISIANA AND MUCH OF SOUTH WEST ARKANSAS NORTHWEST OF A MAGNOLIA...SHREVEPORT CENTER TEXAS LINE. A BAND OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A AREA FROM NORTHEAST OF LINDEN TEXAS TO NEAR LONGVIEW TO WEST OF HENDERSON...SPREADING SLOWLY NORTH EAST. RADAR INDICATIONS ARE THAT FROM TWO TO OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED IN THE WARNED AREA AND ADDITONAL RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL OCCUR. LOW AREA FLOODING WILL INCREASE AND AFECT SEVERAL ROADWAYS WITH OVER FLOW AND SMALL STREAMS MAY LEAVE THEIR BANKS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED NOT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE ADJACENT AREA OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 3:15 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
NEWSPSSHV SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 310 PM CST MON FEB 3 1986 NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE NORTH- WEST HALF OF THE ARKLATEX. HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED TODAY WITH THE SLOW MOVING SYSTEM. RAINFALL OF ON TO TWO INCHES HAS OCCURRED OVER AN AREA NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PRESCOTT ARKANSAS TO WEST OF LEWSIVILLE TO THE LOUISIANA/TEXAS/ ARKANSAS BORDER SECTION TO NEAR LONGVIEW TO NORTHWEST OF PALESTINE. A FEW SPOTS HAVE RECEIVED UPWARDS TO THREE INCHES OVER THE PAST FOUR TO FIVE HOURS. AREA STREAMS WERE WELL BELOW SEASONAL NORMAL PRIOR TO THIS RAINFALL... BUT WITH PERSISTANT RAINFALL OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS SOME LOW AREA FLOODING WILL DEVELOP. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. AT 310 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS SHOWING THE LARGE MASS OF RAIN AND SHOWERS ALONG WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS TO THE TEXAS/LOUISIANA/ARKANSAS BORDER NORTHWEST OF SHREVEPORT TO NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL TEXAS TO THE LONGVIEW AND KILLGORE AREAS TO NORTHWEST OF PALESTINE. THE RAINFALL EXTENDED NORTHWEST SOME 80 MILES INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THIS SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT WHILE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHWEST LOUISIANA THIS EVENING AND NORTHEAST LO9UISIANA BY EARLY TUESDAY.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 4:32 PM CST, 3 hours 18 minutes before
NEWSPSSHV SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 430 PM CST MON FEB 03 1986 THE LEADING EDGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO NORTHWEST LOUISIANA.... THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF PALESTIN HENDERSON AND MARSHALL IN NORTHEAST TXAS TO JUST NORTH OF SHREVEPORT TO BENTON IN NORTHWEST LOUISIAN TO NEAR EL DORADO AND FORDYCE IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. MODERATE RAIN WAS FROM MEAR TEXARKANA SOUTHWEST TO NEAR TYLER TEXAS... MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR.... THE AREA IS DRIFTING EAST SLOWLY. RAINFALL OF NEAR AN INCH WAS COMNOND OVER MOST OF THE RAIN AREA TODAY, WITH ISOLATED REPORTD UP TO NEAR 3 INCHES. THE GROUND WAS DRY, AND A LOT OF THE WATER SOAKED IN, BUT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER THE SAME AREA WILL FILL SMALL STREAMS... FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT. THE RAIN SYYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST TONIGHT AND TUESDAY, WITH MOST OF THE AREA GETTING SOME RAINFALL.. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.....
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.