Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1989, 6:42 AM CDT for Hempstead County, Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1989, 6:42 AM CDT (11:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1989, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hempstead County, AR, Miller County, AR
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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 2206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSHV 041144
FFWSHV
ARC057-091-041345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
642 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM CDT
AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
...HEMPSTEAD...MILLER
A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM DIERKS ARKANSAS TO
TEXARKANA AND TO NEAR ATLANTA TEXAS. HIGH WINDS VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
AND HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Jun 4, 2:32 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 225 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1989 THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HAIL..HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. AT 220 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN LONGVIEW SHOWED A 30 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR LAKE O THE PINES TO NEAR DENTON TEXAS. SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN THE BAND. MOVMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR GLENWOOD ARKANSAS TO FOREMAN ARKANSAS TO NEAR DANGERFIELD TEXAS TO NEAR GREENVILLE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH. YET ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOTED IN A 25 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR HAMBURG ARKANSAS ACROSS EL DORADO ARKANSAS TO NORTHWEST OF ATLANTA TEXAS. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 4 AM. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH THE PRE DAWN HOURS. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD OVER THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX THROUGH THE MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL LIKELY OCCUR. AS THE STRONGEST STORMS MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:12 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 405 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1989 THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HAIL..HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WINDS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. AT 400 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN LONGVIEW SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM DEKALB TEXAS TO MOUNT PLEASANT TEXAS TO GREENVILLE TEXAS TO NEAR CLEBURNE TEXAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED WEST OF GREENVILLE...SOUTHWEST OF PARIS AND NEAR CLARKSVILLE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 20 MPH. ANOTHER 75 MILE WIDE AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR RODESSA LOUISIANA TO NEAR MENA ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH. A THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WAS NOTED NEAR WATERLOO ARKANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS...PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...PARTS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE TEXARKANA...LONGVIEW AND SHREVEPORT/ BOSSIER CITY METROPOLITAN AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WAS IN EFFECT FOR MC CURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD OVER THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX THROUGH TH=E MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL LIKELY OCCUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Little River | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 59 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.