Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 29, 1990, 8:41 AM CST for Gregg County, Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1990, 8:41 AM CST (14:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1990, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gregg 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 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 291444 FFWSHV TXC183-401-291645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 841 AM CST THU MAR 29 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN GREGG COUNTY...NORTHERN RUSK COUNTY AT 835 AM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...15 MILES EXTENDED FROM LONGVIEW TEXAS EAST TO GREENWOOD LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED RAINFALL TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 1.50 INCHES IN THE LONGVIEW AREA DURING THE PAST HOUR AND FLOODING OF STREETS WAS OCCURRING. DO NOT DRIV E YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 29, 3:35 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-291100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 330 AM CST THU MAR 29 1990 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS..WHILE RAIN AND SHOWERS LINGERED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AS WELL AS OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA INTO THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS... AT 325 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 60 MILE WIDE AREA OF RAIN AND SHOWERS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI ACROSS ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA TO NEAR LUFKIN TEXAS. ALSO... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 30 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR CENTER TEXAS ACROSS MARSHALL AND LONGVIEW TO SOUTHWEST OF PARIS TEXAS. OTHER SHOWERS WERE NOTED IN A 20 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR SMITHVILLE OKLAHOMA TO PARIS TEXAS. . THE RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE REGION AND SOME WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS THAT WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS EARLY THIS MORNING. THE RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 5:34 AM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-291300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 530 AM CST THU MAR 29 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCHES ARE NOW IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS.. SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... AT 520 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS INDICATING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA WHICH WAS INCREASING IN AREAL COVERAGE. ONE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTH OF SHREVEPORT NEAR VIVIAN NORTHWESTWARD THROUGH DANGERFIELD TEXAS. A SECOND AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.. WHICH APPEARS TO BE FORMING A LINE..EXTENDED FROM MENA ARKANSAS SOUTHWEST THROUGH PARIS TEXAS TO NEAR GREENVILLE TEXAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 35 MPH. . OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL TEXAS AND WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. IN ADDITION TO THE AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS..DENSE FOG CONTINUES TO COVER PORTIONS OF THE ARKLA'TEX. AT 500 AM THE VISIBILITY WAS 1/4 MILE AT THE SHREVEPORT REGIONAL AIRPORT. EARLY MORNING MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE CAREFULLY THIS MORNING IN THE AREAS WHERE THE FOG IS HAMPERING THE VISIBILITIES.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 6:42 AM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-291400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 635 AM CST THU MAR 29 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCHES REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS.. SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... AT 630 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 15 MILE WIDE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS NEAR 35 MPH THAT EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES EAST OF MAUD TEXAS TO SOUTHEAST OF QUITMAN TEXAS. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS WITHIN A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST OF TEXARKANA TO NEAR WAXAHACHIE TEXAS. THIS AREA WAS ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE. ANOTHER 60 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM WEST OF RINGGOLD LOUISIANA TO NEAR GILLHAM ARKANSAS. ALSO A 15 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS WAS NOTED FROM NEAR MARSHALL TEXAS TO SOUTH OF PLEASANT HILL LOUISIsANA. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS LINGERED OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL TEXAS AND WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 7:47 AM CST, 54 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-291500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 740 AM CST THU MAR 29 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCHES REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS.. SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS TODAY... AT 735 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 12 MILE WIDE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS NEAR 35 MPH THAT EXTENDED FROM SPRINGHILL LOUISIANA TO IDA LOUISIANA ACROSS KARNACK TEXAS TO NORTHWEST OF OVERTON TEXAS. THIS AREA WAS WITHIN A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THE LEADING EDGE OF WHICH EXTENDED FROM HAMPTON ARKANSAS TO ARCADIA LOUISIANA TO COTTON VALLEY LOUISIANA TO SCOTTSVILLE TEXAS TO LONGVIEW TO PALESTINE TEXAS. THIS PRECIPITATION EXTENDED NORTHWEST ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ALSO A 15 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS WAS NOTED FROM NORTHEAST OF BOSSIER CITY TO SOUTHEAST OF HALL SUMMIT LOUISIANA. YET ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN A 25 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR ELYSIAN FIELDS TEXAS TO LEESVILLE LOUISIANA. OTHER SHOWERS WERE NOTED FROM SAN AUGUSTINE TEXAS ACROSS NACOGDOCHES TO NEAR CROCKETT TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE THE SYSTEM SAGGED TO THE SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Nearby
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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.