Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Shreveport, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
120 PM CST FRI NOV 7 1986

A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SHOWERS CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTHEAST ACROSS
NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS AND THE NORTHWEST
TIP OF LOUISIANA ALONG WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL OF ONE TO
TWO INCHES OCCURRED OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE AREA LAST NIGHT..THUS
FAR TODAY ONE TO TWO INCHE AMOUNTS HAVE OCCURRED OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST
LOUISIANA AND THE ADJACENT AREAS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ALONG WITH SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS. STAMPS ARKANSAS REPORTS 2.03 INCHES ENDING AT 1 PM CST.

A CHANGE EXPECTED LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA
AND AND AFFECT MUCH OF THE AREA BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER. A FEW SEVERE
STORMS ARE POSSIBLE.

EARLY THIS AFTERNOON A SURFACE WARM FRONT WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY NORTHWARD
OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH LOUISIANA AND EAST CENTRAL TEXAS.
THE LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING ABOUT 75 TO 100 MILES
NORTH OF THE FRONT...IN A 70 MILES WIDE AREA FROM CAMDEN ARKANSAS TO
THE TEXARKANA/CADDO LAKE AREA TO THE LONGVIEW AREA.

IN WAKE OF THE LARGE AREA OF RAINFALL...LOW CLOUDS...DRIZZLE AND FOG
COVERED MUCH OF NORTH LOUISIANA AND THE ADJACENT AREA OF EAST CENTRAL
TEXAS. VISIBILITIES WERE BELOW ONE HALF MILE IN MANY AREAS.

WARM AIR WAS SPREADING NORTHWARD OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH
LOUISIANA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS...TEMOERATURES WARMING INTO THE 70S...
AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE WARM AIR OVER THE LOWER PART
OF TOLEDO BEND LAKE.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
305 PM CST FRI NOV 7 1986

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS INTO
WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AND SPREAD NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE
SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH
WEST LOUISIANA INTO NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE
ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL.

AT 305 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS SHOW
ING A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUSTON IN NORTH
CENTRAL LOUISIANA ACROSS THE NATCHITOCHES AREA...ACROSS TOLEDO BEND LAKE
TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF CENTER TEXAS TO THE LUFKIN AREA ON SOUTHWEST.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED AT 310 PM CST JUST NORTHWEST OF
NATCHITOCHES..JUST SOUTHEAST OF CENTER TEXAS IN THE LUFKIN AREA ON
SOUTHWEST OF LUFKIN. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE LUFKIN AREA
...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

ANOTHER BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE REORGANIZING OVER SOOTH
WEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS...FROM NEAR PRESCOTT ARKANSAS TO
SOUTHEAST OF TEXARKANA TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LONGVIEW TO NEAR
HENDERSON.  THESE STORMS WILL INCREASE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

STRONG AND POSSIBLE SEVERE STORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL
TEXAS INTO NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

LATER THIS EVENING A THREAT OF STRONG AND SEVERE STORMS WILL DEVELOP
OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE AREA AND SPREAD EAST.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
410 PM CST FRI NOV 7 1986

BAND OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
FROM NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS THE TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY
INTO EAST CENTRAL TEXAS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL TEXAS ACROSS THE TOLEDO
BEND COUNTRY ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

AT 410 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS SHOW
ING THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MONROE LOUISIANA TO
NEAR JONESBORO TO 15 MILES NORTH OF NATCHITOCHES...ACROSS TOLEDO BEND
LAKE TO SOUTHEAST OF CENTER TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OF LUFKIN.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHWEST OF THE JONESBORO/HODGE AREA OF NORTH
CENTRAL LOUISIANA...OVER TOLEDO BEND LAKE EAST OF CENTER TEXAS AND NORTH
EAST OF LUFKIN TEXAS.
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THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE NOTHEAST AT 35 MPH...HOWEVER THERE IS
NOW A SLIGHT EASTWARD MOVMENT ON THE OVERALL SYSTEM.

THE STORMS APPROCHING THE JONESBOR AREA WERE INCREASING AND MAY
PRODUCE HIGH WINDS. ALSO THE STORMS APROCHING TOLEDO BEND LAKE
WERE INCREASING AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HIGH WINDS.

ANOTHER BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NORTH
WEST OF CAMDEN ARKANSAS TO NEAR LEWSIVILLE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST
TIP OF LOUISIANA TO NEAR MARSHALL AND LONGVIEW TEXAS. THIS SYSTEM
WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH.

PATCHES OF RAIN AND SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHCENTRAL
ARKANS!AS AND NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA.

ADDITONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA...AND
LOW AREA FLOODING MAY DEVELOP AS THE GROUND IS SATURDATED FROM
RAINFALL OF TWO TO OVER FOUR INCHES THIS WEEK.