Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1989, 7:29 AM CDT for Bowie County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1989, 7:29 AM CDT (12:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1989, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bowie 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 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 16, 2:59 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 16, 4:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 415 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 6 AM..A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WAS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS TODAY... AT 410 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 90 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR MENA ARKANSAS TO NEAR GREENVILLE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. WITHIN THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CLARKSVILLE AND NEAR PARIS TEXAS. ALSO MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURING OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA IN AN AREA WHERE ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE OCCURRED OVERNIGHT. WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED WITHIN THE HALF HOUR FOR MC CURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 58 min |
| May 16, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 100 min |
| May 16, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 100 min |
| May 16, 9:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 70 min |
| May 16, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 3 hr |
| May 16, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | De Soto | 3 hr |
| May 16, 10:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 80 min |
| May 16, 10:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 59 min |
| May 16, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Red River | 92 min |
| May 16, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 85 min |
| May 16, 1:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Sabine | 3 hr |
| May 16, 1:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Winn | 3 hr |
| May 15, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 67 min |
| May 16, 12:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 65 min |
| May 16, 5:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 69 min |
| May 16, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison | 65 min |
| May 16, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 65 min |
| May 16, 8:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 73 min |
| May 16, 9:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Panola, Shelby | 80 min |
| May 16, 9:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Gregg, Rusk | 70 min |
| May 16, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 3 hr |
| May 16, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 3 hr |
| May 16, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie | 3 hr |
| May 16, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 66 min |
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.