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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 16, 1989Sabine Parish, Louisiana; Shelby County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1989, 1:05 PM CDT for Sabine Parish, Louisiana; Shelby County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1989, 1:05 PM CDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1989, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Sabine Parish, LA, Shelby 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1989-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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

Local storm report, May 16, 7:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
740 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1989

1130 PM...ROAD FM1843 WITH SIX INCHES OF WATER OVER ROAD IN BOWIE
           COUNTY TEXAS.

1135 PM...FUNNEL CLOUD EAST OF DEKALB TEXAS IN BOWIE COUNTY TEXAS.

1138 PM...BARN COMPLETELY DESTROYED 1 MILE EAST OF DEKALB TEXAS IN
          BOWIE COUNTY.

1140 PM...HIGHWAY 82 UNDER WATER IN SECTIONS IN BOWIE COUNTY TEXAS.

1250 AM...FUNNEL CLOUD AT HOOKS TEXAS IN BOWIE COUNTY.

1255 AM...FUNNEL CLOUD AT REDBANK AND AT BURNS TEXAS IN BOWIE COUNTY.

120 AM...TORNADO DESTROYED OUT BUILDING AND DOWNED TREES NEAR WAMBA
          TEXAS IN BOWIE COUNTY.

615 AM....GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NORTH OF DEKALB IN BOWIE COUNTY TEXAS.

630 AM....ONE INCH HAIL NEAR HAWORTH OKLAHOMA IN MC CURTAIN COUNTY.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Caddo58 min
May 16, 8:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaddo100 min
May 16, 8:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier100 min
May 16, 9:35 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVBossier, Caddo70 min
May 16, 9:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVBossier, Caddo3 hr
May 16, 9:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVDe Soto3 hr
May 16, 10:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches, Sabine80 min
May 16, 10:31 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVNatchitoches, Sabine59 min
May 16, 10:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto, Red River92 min
May 16, 11:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches, Sabine85 min
May 16, 1:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVNatchitoches, Winn3 hr
May 15, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie67 min
May 16, 12:55 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVBowie65 min
May 16, 5:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie69 min
May 16, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg, Harrison65 min
May 16, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie65 min
May 16, 7:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVBowie3 hr
May 16, 8:57 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVHarrison, Marion73 min
May 16, 9:10 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVPanola, Shelby80 min
May 16, 9:35 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVGregg, Rusk70 min
May 16, 9:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVGregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby3 hr
May 16, 9:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCass, Marion3 hr
May 16, 9:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVBowie3 hr
May 16, 6:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River, Sevier66 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1989Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989

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.