Tornado Warning 24, NWS Shreveport, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
335 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1989

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..NORTHEAST
TEXAS  AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND MUCH OF NORTH LOUISIANA OVERNIGHT.

A NEAR STATIONARY FRONTAL SYSTEM POSITIONED FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS
THE HEART OF THE ARKLATEX WILL DRIFT SLOWY NORTHWARD THROUGH TONIGHT
..AT THE SAME TIME UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES ARE MOVING EAST OVER THE
FRONTAL ZONE FROM THE WEST AND A SERIES OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM
OUTBREAKS WILL OCCUR OVER THE NEXT 26 HOURS.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THE PERIOD ARE EXPECTED...THAT
COUPLED WITH ABOVE NORMAL STAGES ON AREA STREAMS AND LAKES AND NEAR
SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS..RAINFALL OVER THE PAST THIRTY DAYS HAS
RANGED FROM TEN TO 25 INCHES..MEANS A HIGH PROBABILITY OF FLOODING
ONCE AGAIN ACROSS PARTS OF TH AREA.

ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF OF FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL...A FEW SEVERE
STORMS WILL ALSO DEVELOP...FIRST OVER THE EXTREME SOUTH AND WESTERN
SECTIONS OF THE AREA...AND OVERNIGHT OVER MUCH OF THE AREA.

THUS FAR TODAY RAIFALL HAS RANGED FROM TRACE AMOUNTS IN A SOME AREAS TO
ISOLATED TWO INCHE AMOUNTS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. OVERNIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING...RAIN-
FALL OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES WILL OCCUR OVER A LARGE PART OF THE ARKLATEX
WITH STORM TOTALS EXCEEDING SIX INCHES IN SOME OF THE AREA.

ALL STREAMS ARE RUNNING HIGH A FEW ARE IN FLOOD...ALL DRAINAGE DITCHES
ARE NEAR BANKFULL..THUS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES IN THE
AREA WILL RESULT IN LOWLAND FLOODING.

AT 330 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED
VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES SOUTH WEST OF DEKALB TEXAS...THIS
STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. OTHER
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF LUFKIN TEXAS..AND EAST OF ALEXANDRIA.

WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND RAIN COVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND PARTS
OF NORTH LOUISIANA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.

TO THE WEST...A STRONG WEATHER SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHCENTRAL
TEXAS. THIS SYSTEM WILL INVADE THE AREA FOROM THE WEST TONIGHT AND
AFFFCT ALL THE AREA BY THURSDAY MORNING.