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Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 27, 1991Bowie County, Texas; Little River County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 27, 1991, 6:14 AM CDT for Bowie County, Texas; Little River County, Arkansas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 1991, 6:14 AM CDT (11:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1991, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Little River County, AR, Bowie County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.7
Supercell composite: 21.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Apr 27, 5:25 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	118 min
Apr 26, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	118 min
Apr 27, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, Webster	2 hr
Apr 27, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	70 min
Apr 27, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville	88 min
Apr 27, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Webster	89 min
Apr 27, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville	3 hr
Apr 27, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln	2 hr
Apr 27, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	2 hr
Apr 26, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Rusk	68 min
Apr 26, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Rusk	98 min
Apr 26, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison, Panola	59 min
Apr 27, 3:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie	3 hr
Apr 27, 3:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	56 min
Apr 27, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	55 min
Apr 27, 7:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	68 min
Apr 27, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	56 min
Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass	60 min
Apr 27, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk	75 min
Apr 27, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Panola	98 min
Apr 27, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	98 min
Apr 27, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	57 min
Apr 27, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	2 hr
Apr 26, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Little River, Sevier	118 min
Apr 27, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Pike	94 min
Apr 27, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River	34 min
Apr 27, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Nevada	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1991 Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1991 Every flash flood warning in 1991

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.