Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1989, 10:11 PM CDT for Harrison County, Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1989, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1989, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harrison County, TX, Rusk 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 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 4 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
- 1988 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1300 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KSHV 140313
FFWSHV
TXC203-315-401-140715-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1011 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
...HARRISON...MARION...RUSK
AT 1000 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT
SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM CADDO LAKE TO
SOUTHWEST OF HENDERSON TEXAS. THE BAND WAS WITHIN A LARGE AREA
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED EXTREME NORTHWEST
LOUISIANA...NORTHEAST TEXAS ON WEST INTO THE DALLAS TEXAS AREA.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN
DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS. STORM TOTALS OF FOUR TO FIVE
INCHES WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN THE WARNED AREA BY MIDNIGHT.
STREET FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP..SMALL STREAMS WILL BE
ON THE RISE AND WILL LEAVE THEIR BANKS AFFECTING MAINLY SECONDARY
ROADS.
ALONG WITH THE THREAT FOR FLOODING...SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE
THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT HOURS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.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 13, 5:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 505 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989 SEVERE STORM THREAT HAS ENDED OVER THE EAST HALF OF THE ARKLATEX... WILL REDEVELOP OVER THE WEST HALF THIS EVENING AND SPREAD EAST DURING THE NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. ALSO STORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE AREA WILL INCREASE THIS EVENING AND A FEW WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AND LOCAL HIGH WIND GUSTS. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE WEST...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR AS WELL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT FOR THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE ARKLATEX..MAINLY LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. AT 455 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS SHOWING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN A AREA FROM NEAR GREENVILLE MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR TALLULAH LOUISIANA TO NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA ACROSS TOLEDO BEND LAKE THEN SOUTHWEST TO WEST OF LUFKIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS INTO NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS. THESE STORM WERE INCREA,SING AND SPREADING EAST AND SEVERE STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY DEVELOP. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THE STORM SYSTEM OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM NEAR LONGVIEW TO NEAR TYLER.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 7:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 735 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FOR PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND MUCH OF NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS. FLASH FLOOD WATCHES REMAINED IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX. AT 725 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR FERRIDAY TO EAST OF WINNSBORO TO SOUTH OF TALLULAH LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN A 35 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR DE BERRY TEXAS TO SOUTH OF TYLER TEXAS. ANOTHER 30 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOTED FROM NORTH OF NACOGDOCHES TO WEST OF PALESTINE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NEAR 15 MPH. . THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS NEAR ONE INCH WERE LOCATED WEST OF HENDERSON TEXAS AND NORTH OF JACKSONVILLE TEXAS. TO THE WEST NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM DEKALB TEXAS TO NEAR ATHENS TEXAS TO EAST OF WACO TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THIS SYSTEM WAS EAST NEAR 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 8:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 835 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FOR PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND MUCH OF NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS. FLASH FLOOD WATCHES REMAINED IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX. AT 825 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM MOUND LOUISIANA TO FERRIDAY TO NEAR SHAW LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN A 30 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR TENAHA TEXAS TO REKLAW TO WEST OF PALESTINE TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED EAST OF REKLAW TEXAS. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS PRODUCING HAIL AND HIGH WINDS AS WELL AS HEAVY RAINS WAS NOTED WEST OF JACKSONVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NEAR 15 MPH. . ANOTHER 25 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR LAKE VILLAGE ARKANSAS ACROSS EL DORADO TO NEAR PLAIN DEALING LOUISIANA. TO THE WEST..NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM SMITHVILLE OKLAHOMA TO NASHVILLE ARKANSAS TO CADDO LAKE TO HENDERSON TEXAS. HEAVY RAINS WERE FALLING FROM LAKE O THE PINES TO TYLER TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THIS SYSTEM WAS EAST NEAR 25 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 8:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
LAZ001-140430- SHLA-SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY METROPOLITAN FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 830 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989 .TONIGHT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE. LOW NEAR 70. SOUTH WIND NEAR 15 MPH. CHANCE OF RAIN 60 PERCENT. .WEDNESDAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY..A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.. STRONG AND GUSTY NEAR STORMS. CHANCE FOR RAIN 60 PERCENT. .WEDNESDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A GOOD CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE MID 60S. CHANCE FOR RAIN 50 PERCENT. .THURSDAY...CHANCE FOR RAIN AND SHOWERS MAINLY DURING THE MORNING DECREASING CLOUDINESS BY AFTERNOON AND A LITTLE COOLER. HIGH NEAR 80. CHANCE FOR RAIN 30 PERCENT.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 8:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 835 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FOR PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND MUCH OF NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS. FLASH FLOOD WATCHES REMAINED IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX. AT 825 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM MOUND LOUISIANA TO FERRIDAY TO NEAR SHAW LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN A 30 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR TENAHA TEXAS TO REKLAW TO WEST OF PALESTINE TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED EAST OF REKLAW TEXAS. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS PRODUCING HAIL AND HIGH WINDS AS WELL AS HEAVY RAINS WAS NOTED WEST OF JACKSONVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NEAR 15 MPH. . ANOTHER 25 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR LAKE VILLAGE ARKANSAS ACROSS EL DORADO TO NEAR PLAIN DEALING LOUISIANA. TO THE WEST..NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM SMITHVILLE OKLAHOMA TO NASHVILLE ARKANSAS TO CADD'O LAKE TO HENDERSON TEXAS. HEAVY RAINS WERE FALLING FROM LAKE O THE PINES TO TYLER TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THIS SYSTEM WAS EAST NEAR 25 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Rusk | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Marion | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Rusk | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash 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.