Tornado Warning 9, NWS Shreveport, LA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
727 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1989

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND A
SMALL PART OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND NO LONGER IN
EFFECT...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...

AT 720 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS AND WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL
LOUISIANA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR CROCKETT AND NACOGDOCHES TEXAS EAST
ACROSS LOUISIANA TO NEAR MANY AND ALEXANDRIA AND TO NEAR NATCHEZ
MISSISSIPPI. MOVMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.

RADAR SHOWED OTHER BSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
FROM NEAR MCALESTER EAST INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS TO NEAR FORT SMITH AND
CLARKSVILLE AND IN SOUTHERN MCCURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT WAS
TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
815 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...

AT 807 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR PLAIN DEALING SOUTHEAST TO NEAR ARCADIA
LOUISIANA AND ANOTHER AREA FROM NEAR ANTLERS OKLAHOMA SOUTHEAST TO NEAR
WRIGHT CITY AND BROKEN BOW IN MCCURTAIN COUNTY INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
TO NEAR HORATIO. RADAR SHOWED OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA JUST ENTERING THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF MCCURTAIN
COUNTY AND OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR WINNSBORO SOUTHEvAST TO
NEAR ST JOSEPH.

THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS..AND NORTH LOUISIANA WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25
MPH WHILE THOSE OVER EASTERN LOUISIANA MOVED TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
925 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1989

BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA AND THE ADJACENT AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS...GENERALLY
IN THE OUACHITA MOUNTAINS.

THESE STORMS ARE VERY STRONG AND WILL PRODUCE SPOTY HAIL...STRONG TO
LOCAL HIGH WIND GUSTS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY RESULT IN LOW
AREA FLOODING IN THE SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS OF THE OUACHITA MOUNTAINS.

AT 925 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED
THE 30 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST OF HO SPRINGS TO
THE SMITHVILLE...BROKEN BOW...BATTIEST AND PINE CREEK AREA OF SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA ON TO NEAR HUGO.

OTHE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING SPOTTY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED
IN EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT AREA OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

THE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD PERSISTED OVER
PARTS OF NORTH LOUISIANA AND THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST
TEXAS HAVE DISSIPATED EXCEPT FOR AN AREA FROM  30 MILES SOUTH OF
TYLER TO NORTH OF COLLEGE STATION.

THE STORMS OVER THE NOTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX WILL PERSIST
INTO THE MIDNIGHT HOURS WHILE SPREADING SOUTHEAST AFFECTING MUCH OF
THE NORTHWESET HALF OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND
ISOLATED STRONG  THUNDERSTORMS THAT MAY PRODUCE SPOTTY HAIL AND LOCAL
HIGH WIND GUSTS AS WELL.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1047 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1989

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA EARLIER HAS
EXPIRED AND NO LONGER IN EFFECT...
...NO WARNINGS IN EFFECT AT 1035 PM FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA..SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS..OR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...

AT 1040 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..
AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR WRIGHT CITY OKLAHOMA
AND HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS SOUTH TO NEAR AVERY..DEKALB..AND NEW BOSTON
TEXAS AND OKAY ARKANSAS. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE AREA
WERE INDICATED FROM NEAR AVERY EAST TO NORTH OF NEW BOSTON TEXAS AND
FROM NEAR FOREMAN ARKANSAS WEST INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST MCCURTAIN
COUNTY OKLAHOMA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

RADAR SHOWED OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH LOUISIANA AND
EAST TEXAS FROM NEAR CONVERSE LOUISIANA SOUTH TO NEAR MILAM TEXAS
AND MANY LOUISIANA AND OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR BENTON
SOUTHEAST TO BOSSIER CITY AND CASTOR. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT
25 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS..
AND NORTHEAST TEXAS WERE INDICATED TO BE THE STRONGER STORMS AND
WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..GUSTY WINDS..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..
AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.