Tornado Warning 26, NWS Shreveport, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
325 PM CDT MON JUL 21 1986

...ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING IN PARTS OF NORTHWEST
LOUISIANA AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF OKLAHOMA...

AT 320 PM THE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED ISOLATED
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING...STRONG TO HIGH WIND GUSTS AND HAIL IN WEST-
CENTRAL LOUISIANA ALONG THE VERNON / SABINE PARISH LINE 12 MILES SOUTH-
SOUTHEAST OF MANY LOUISIANA.  ANOTHER STORM OF THIS SAME CATEGORY WAS
OCCURRING JUST EAST OF POWHATAN IN NATCHITOCHES PARISH LOUISIANA.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST 10 MPH.  ALSO INDICATED IN CENTRAL
LOUISIANA WERE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF JENA AND NORTHWEST
OF POLLOCK.

IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF OKLAHOMA INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF
CAUSING HIGH WIND GUSTS AND HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF BETHEL.  LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS THE NORTHERN
PART OF MC CURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA.

THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE INDICATED FROM THE SULFUR SPRINGS AND DANGER-
FIELD AREAS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS SOUTH INTO THE HENDERSON TEXAS AREA
SOUTHEAST INTO THE LOWER TOLEDO BEND LAKE COUNTRY AND THROUGH NORTH
LOUISIANA TO THE AREA BETWEEN COLFAX AND ALEXANDRIA TO THE JONESBORO
AREA ANcD SOUTHWEST OF MONROE.

IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING EAST OF BASTROP TO BETWEEN RAYVILLE AND OAK GROVE TO EAST OF
TALLULAH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
430 PM CDT MON JUL 21 1986

VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN
LOUISIANA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTWEST
ARKANSAS

THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR AT 4:25 PM SHOWED AN AREA OF VERY
HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR WINNSBORO AND RAYVILLE LOUISIANA
EXTENDING WESTWARD ACROSS WINNFIELD AND ALEXANDRIA INTO EASTERN
TEXAS EAST OF LUFKIN...THEN NORTHWARD THROUGH THE TYLER-LONG-
VIEW AREAS INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA BETWEEN MCALESTER
AND BROKEN BOW.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED FROM NEAR MENA AND
DEQUEEN ARKANSAS TO NEAR HOT SPRINGS.

THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN LOUISIANA NEAR
WINNSBORO AND NEAR COLUMBIA AND JONESBORO.  MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY
SOUTHWARD.

FORTY TO FIFTY MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED AT CROWVILLE LOUISIANA
NORTH OF WINNSBORO AT 425 PM ALONG WITH ONE HALF INCH HAIL.

SHOWERS AND SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO
AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.  SOME OF
THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL.  STRONG LOCALLY HIGH
WIND GUSTS WILL OCCUR WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS BEGIN TO DISSIPATE.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 PM CDT MON JUL 21 1986

...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST AND NORTHCENTRAL
LOUISOANA...

AT 555 PM THE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS AT QUITMAN IN NORTHWEST JACKSON PARISN AND EAST OF
CHATHAM IN SOUTHWEST OUACHITA PARISH.  ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY DOWN-
POURS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE STRONG TO HIGH
WIND GUSTS AND HAIL.

THE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWES AND THUNDERSTORMS
THAT WERE OCCURRING FROM SOUTH OF RUSTON...WEST OF MONROE AND FROM
JONESBORO LOUISIANA SOUTHEAST IN A 25 MILE WIDE AREA ACROSS COLUMBIA
LOUISIANA TO JENA AND HARRISONBURG LOUISIANA.

ELSEWHERE IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING WEST OF BASTROP.

IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSHOWERS WERE NORTH
OF SHREVEPORT AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED
FROM MANSFIELD LOUISIANA ACROSS MANY INTO SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF
NATCHITOCHES PARISH SOUTH OF CYPRESS.

IN NORTHEAST TEXAS A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING FROM
TO NORTHWEST OF CENTER.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOMS WERE ALSO INDICATED ALONG THE RED
RIVER FROM TEXARKANA TO EAST OF HUGO OKLAHOMA.

IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING
NEAR DE QUEEN AND WEST OF NASHVILLE.

LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 PM CDT MON JUL 21 1986

...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST AND NORTHCENTRAL
LOUISOANA...

AT 555 PM THE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS AT QUITMAN IN NORTHWEST JACKSON PARISN AND EAST OF
CHATHAM IN SOUTHWEST OUACHITA PARISH.  ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY DOWN-
POURS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE STRONG TO HIGH
WIND GUSTS AND HAIL.

THE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWES AND THUNDERSTORMS
THAT WERE OCCURRING FROM SOUTH OF RUSTON...WEST OF MONROE AND FROM
JONESBORO LOUISIANA SOUTHEAST IN A 25 MILE WIDE AREA ACROSS COLUMBIA
LOUISIANA TO JENA AND HARRISONBURG LOUISIANA.

ELSEWHERE IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING WEST OF BASTROP.

IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSHOWERS WERE NORTH
OF SHREVEPORT AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED
FROM MANSFIELD LOUISIANA ACROSS MANY INTO SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF
NATCHITOCHES PARISH SOUTH OF CYPRESS.

IN NORTHEAST TEXAS A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING FROM
TO NORTHWEST OF CENTER.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOMS WERE ALSO INDICATED ALONG THE RED
RIVER FROM TEXARKANA TO EAST OF HUGO OKLAHOMA.

IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING
NEAR DE QUEEN AND WEST OF NASHVILLE.

LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.