Tornado Warning 1, NWS Shreveport, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1150 AM CST SAT MAR 4 1989

ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS WITHIN A
LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SHOWERS...THE RAIN AND SHOWERS BECOME MIXED
WITH SLEET OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA.

AT 1150 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GILMER TEXAS MOVING NORTH-
EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.

RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE INDICATED WEST OF A LINE FORM HOT SPRINGS TO
HOPE TO TEXARKANA TO NEAR TYLER.  THE FREEZE LINE WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR
DEQUEEN ARKANSAS TO DEKALB TEXAS TO TULER. PRECIPITATION WEST OF THAT
LINE WAS MIXED RAIN AND SLEET.

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF
THE ARKLATEX THIS AFTERNOON WITH WINTER PRECIPITATION INCREASING  BY
LATE TONIGHT AND A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NRTHWWEST
SECTIONS THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY.

MEANWHILE IN THE WARM AIR...OVER THE SOUTHEAT HALF OF THE ARKLATEX..
TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 60S AND WILL RISE TO NEAR 70 THIS AFTERNOON
BEFORE FALLING FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS  WILL
DEVELOP FROM EAST CENTRAL TEXAS ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA INTO SOUTH-
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS BY MID AFTERNOON AND A FEW SEVERE STORMS
ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
WITH HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND NEARBY ADJACENT AREAS.

COLDER AIR WILL OVERSPREAD ALL THE AREA FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST
TONIGHT WITH STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY. LAKE
WIND ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT...AND WIND CHILLS WILL DROP INTO THE
SINGLE DIGITS OVER THE NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON AND OVER THE SOUTHEAST
EARLY SUNDAY.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
330 PM CST SAT MAR 4 1989

BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS ALONG WITH ISOLATED HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS.  ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER
CENTRAL LOUISIANA.  MIXED RAIN AND SLEET OCCURRING OVER THE
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE ARKLATEX.

THE ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL LOUISIANA WILL
INCREASE AND SPREAD NORTHEASTWARD BRINGING A THREAT OF SEVERE
STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL TO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA TONIGHT.

TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN WARM IN THOSE AREAS THIS EVENING AFTER
REACHING HIGHS IN THE LOW 70S.

BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST
TEXAS FROM NORTHWEST OF MAGNOLIA TO NEAR JEFFERSON TO NEAR LONGVIEW
WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD TO THE EASTSOUTHEAST RESULTING IN LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS AND NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA
EARLY TONIGHT.

IN ITS WAKE RAIN AND SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REMAINDER OF
NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS BECOMING MIXED WITH SLEET.
LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON FREEZING TEMPERATURES WERE LOCATED WEST OF
A HOT SPRINGS...NASHVILLE ARKANSAS...LONGVIEW TEXAS LINE.

OVERNIGHT THE COLD AIR WILL SPREAD FURTHER SOUTHEAST ACCOMPANIED
BY STRONG NORTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH AND BY LATE TONIGHT
RAIN WILL BECOMING MIXED WITH SOME SLEET ACROSS THE NORTHWERN HALF
OF THE ARKLATEX...CHANGING TO SNOW ACROSSS THE NORTHWESTERN THIRD
OF THE AREA AND WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY.

THE WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWESTERN THIRD
OF THE AREA FOR TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING.

TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHCENTRAL...NORTHEAST
AND EASTCENTRAL LOUISIANA.