Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 1990, 2:55 AM CST for Miller County, Arkansas; Cass County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 1990, 2:55 AM CST (08:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1990, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Miller County, AR, Cass 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 469 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 562 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 080857 FFWSHV ARC091-TXC067-081000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 255 AM CST THU MAR 8 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...SOUTHERN MILLER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...EASTERN CASS COUNTY AT 250 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARIN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST NORTH OF O'FARRELL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HIGH WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WITH ITS PASSAGE. 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, Mar 7, 9:05 PM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002-003- 004-005-006-080500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 900 PM CST WED MAR 7 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH ARKANSAS TONIGHT... AT 845 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THAT EXTENDED ABOUT 30 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM NAPLES TEXAS TO ASHDOWN ARKANSAS TO MURFREESBORO ARKANSAS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF MAUD TEXAS TO NEAR ASHDOWN ARKANSAS AND ON TO NEAR NASHVILLE AND MURFREESBORO ARKANSAS. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. FLOODING OF STREAMS AND LOW ROADWAYS ARE POSSIBLE. RADAR ALSO SHOWED ANOTHER AREA OF RAIN AND SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTH- WEST ARKANSAS FROM NEAR CARTHAGE TEXAS TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MPH. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED TODAY OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH- WEST ARKANSAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS HAVE MOSTLY BEEN IN THE TWO TO FOUR INCH RANGE WITH A FEW REPORTS OF NEAR FIVE INCHES. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION..DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROAzD WAYS AS URBAN STREET AND UNDERPASS FLOODING MAY OCCUR WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS.
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 10:36 PM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002-003- 004-005-006-080600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1035 PM CST WED MAR 7 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH ARKANSAS TONIGHT... AT 1030 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM EMORY TEXAS TO ATLANTA TEXAS ON TO ELDORADO ARKANSAS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING NEAR IDABEL OKLAHOMA...NEAR DEQUEEN AND HORATIO ARKANSAS AND ALSO NEAR MURFREESBORO. LOW AREA AND STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE NEAR DEQUEEN ARKANSAS AND IDABEL OKLAHOMA...AS WELL AS BETWEEN FULTON AND ANTOINE ARKANSAS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. RADAR ALSO SHOWED ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDER- STORMS OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH ARKNASAS FROM NEAR CONVERSE LOUISIANA NORTHWARD THROUGHT THE SHREVEPORT AREA TO NEAR MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED TODAY OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH- WEST ARKANSAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS HAVE MOSTLY BEEN IN THE TWO TO FOUR INCH RANGE WITH A FEW REPORTS OF NEAR FIVE INCHES. THE RAINFALL THIS EVENING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS PERSISTS AS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE SAME GENERAL AREA. SOME STREAMS AND SMALL RIVERS WERE RISING AND POSSIBLY CAUSING LOW AREA FLOODING. MOTORISTS ARE URGED ITO USE CAUTION..DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROAD WAYS AS URBAN STREET AND UNDERPASS FLOODING MAY OCCUR WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 11:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 4 hr |
| Mar 7, 11:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Pike | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Little River | 118 min |
| Mar 8, 2:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 3:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Pike | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Miller | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Miller | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Marion | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1990Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.