Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

May 31, 1990, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)

Expired

May 31, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Caldwell Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
145 PM CDT THU MAY 31 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES/PARISHES IN

NORHTEAST LOUISIANA... MADISON..FRANKLIN..TENSAS..CALDWELL

NORTHEAST TEXAS... GREGG...HARRISON

HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE IN PARTS OF MADISON PARISH AND GREGG AND HARRISON
COUNTIES AND FLOODING WILL CONTINUE. FLOODING WILL AFFECT SECONDARY ROADS
ALONG WITH CONSIDERABLE URBAN STREET AND UNDERPASS FLOODING.

FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES AND
COUNTIES: IN NORTH LOUISIANA..OUACHITA..NORTHERN SABINE..SOUTHERN CADDO
SOUTHERN BOSSIER..SOUTHERN WEBSTER..DESOTO..NORTHWEST WINN..BIENVILLE..
NORTHERN NATCHITOCHES..JACKSON..LINCOLN..SOUTHWEST UNION..SOUTHERN
CLAIBORNE..RED RIVER. WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED LATER THIS
AFTERNOON FOR THESE PARISHES.

IN NORTHEAST TEXAS..SHELBY..RUSK..PANOLA. WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE
EXTENDED FOR THESE COUNTIES LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 130 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE NUMEROUS
SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN A 60 MILE WIDE AREA FROM
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR TALLULAH WESTWARD ALONG AND GENERALLY SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 20 ACROSS NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES HAVE BEEN COMMON IN THIS AREA THIS
MORNING. ALSO RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES FELL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN
PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH
ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF UP TO 6 INCHES. THE COMBINATION OF THESE RAINFALLS
AND HIGH STAGES ON MAJOR STREAMS IN THE AREA HAVE OR WILL CAUSE EXTENSIVE
LOW LAND FLOODING AND NUMEROUS ROAD CLOSURES ARE LIKELY. MOTORISTS ARE
ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. ROADWAYS WILL REMAIN
FLOODED LONG AFTER THE RAIN ENDS AND STORM RAINFALL TOTALS FROM WEDNESDAY
EVENING THROUGH THIS EVENING WILL RANGE FROM 4 TO 10 INCHES FOR THE
WARNED AREA.

In the hours before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
805 AM CDT THU MAY 31 1990

...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO LINGER
OVER PARTS OF EAST TEXAS..SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA..WITH
REDEVELOPMENT OVER EAST TEXAS...

AT 800 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A
30 MILE WIDE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THAT
EXTENDED FROM NEAR CROSSETT ARKANSAS ACROSS THE LOUISIANA/ARKANSAS
BORDER TO SOUTH OF CANFIELD ARKANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING
GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND PEA SIZE HAIL WERE LOCATED WEST OF
EL DORADO ARKANSAS AND AT SHONGALOO LOUISIANA.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO NOTED IN A 35 MILE WIDE
AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR VICKSBURG MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR MONROE
LOUISIANA. A THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS
WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL WAS NOTED EAST OF MONROE LOUISIANA.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR.

ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ABOUT 40 MILES
WIDE...EXTENDED FROM NEAR ROBELINE LOUISIANA ACROSS TIMPSON TEXAS TO
NORTHWEST OF TYLER TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE
PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS WERE LOCATED
NORTH OF KILGORE TEXAS AND 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF OVERTON TEXAS.
MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 25 MILES AN HOUR.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER OVER THE AREA THIS
MORNING WITH SOME REDEVELOPMENT OVER EAST TEXAS. THE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND LOCALLY HEAVY THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA TODAY.

Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990

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.