Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 93, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 7, 1990, 3:55 PM CDT for Howard County, Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 1990, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1990, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Howard County, AR, Pike 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 072058 RRA FFWSHV ARC061-081-109-133-OKC089-080000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 355 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...HOWARD COUNTY...LITTLE RIVER COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY...SEVIER COUNT IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...MCCURTAIN COUNTY AT 345 PM WEATHER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A 45 MILE WIDE BAND OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO NEAR DEQUEEN TO IDABEL OKLAHOMA AND ON TO PARIS AND DALLAS TEXAS. A FEW OF THESE OF STORMS WILL LIKELY REACH SEVERE LEVELS WITHIN HOUR IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THIS SYSTEM WILL SLOWLY MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE SAME GENERAL AREA. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG WINDS UP TO 60 MPH WITH HEAVY RAIN UP TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH ISOLATED SPOTS OF UP TO 4 INCHES CAUSING FLOODING EFFECTING ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION. A SEVER0E THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR SOUTH ARKANSAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND NORTHEAST TEXAS.
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, Oct 7, 1:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-072115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 113 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AT 105 PM THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR DEQUEEN ARKANSAS TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF HOT SPRINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EASTSOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX THIS AFTERNOON..AND THEN WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR AN INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE ARES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 2:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-072115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 215 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 1990 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... AT 215 PM...SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR HUGO OKLAHOMA TO DEQUEEN ARKANSAS TO ARKADELPHIA. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR DEQUEEN AND ARKADELPHIA AND WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX THIS AFTERNOON..AND THEN WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR AN INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. . THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 3:18 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 315 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH ARKANSAS... NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 9 PM... AT 315 PM...SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR DALLAS TEXAS TO IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO MURFREESBORO ARKANSAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR DEQUEEN AND MURFREESBORO ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX THIS EVENING...AND THEN WILL MOVE INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA LATER THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR AN INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREAS THIS EVENING. . THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Pike, Sevier | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Miller | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 3 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.