Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1990, 1:02 PM CDT for Columbia County, Lafayette County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1990, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, AR, Lafayette County, AR
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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 3592 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 031803 FFWSHV ARC027-073-091-TXC037-032200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 102 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...COLUMBIA COUNTY...LAFAYETTE COUNTY...MILLER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...BOWIE COUNTY AT 100 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS TO BEGIN TO AFFECT THE WARNED AREA ONCE AGAIN. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA AND RAINFALL TOTALS OF TWO TO FIVE INCHES HAVE LIKELY OCCURRED. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO PLAGUE TO WARNED AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIP8S...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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, Jun 3, 7:53 AM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-031425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 750 AM CDT SUN JAUN 3 1990 AT 745 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..NORTHEAST TEXAS.. SOUTH ARKANSAS..AND NORTH LOUISIANA ABOUT 70 MILES WIDE. THE AREA EXTENDED GENERALLY NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PARIS SOUTHEAST TO ATLANTA TEXAS..CANFIELD ARKANSAS..AND BASTROP AND LAKE PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED NEAR FULTON AND HOPE ARKANSAS AND ALONG THE ARKANSAS/LOUISIANA STATE LINE NORTH OF BASTROP LOUISIANA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 8:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-031435- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 845 AM CDT SUN JAUN 3 1990 AT 845 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..NORTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTH ARKANSAS..AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE THAT WAS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR PARIS SOUTHEAST TO ATLANTA TEXAS..CANFIELD ARKANSAS..AND BASTROP AND LAKE PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED NEAR FULTON AND CAMDEN ARKANSAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 9:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-031535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 945 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 AT 945 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..NORTHEAST TEXAS TEXAS..SOUTH ARKANSAS..AND EXTREME NORTH LOUISIANA ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE THAT WAS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MT VERNON TEXAS TO LINDER TEXAS TO HOMER LOUISIANA TO OAK GROVE ARKANSAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CLARKSVILLE TEXAS..LEWISVILLE ARKANSAS AND JUST NORTH OF MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES HAS- WITH SOME AMOUNTS NEAR 4 INCHES OVERNIGHT OCCURRED WITH ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS THIS MORNING. LOW AREA FLOODING IS LIKELY ACROSS SOUTH ARKANSAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 11:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Miller | 119 min |
| Jun 3, 1:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Miller | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.