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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Shreveport, LA

August 26, 1992East Carroll Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1992, 8:56 PM CDT for East Carroll Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 26, 1992, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 1992, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties East Carroll Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 697 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, Aug 26, 4:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
415 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26TH

TIME CDT    PARISH/COUNTY    STATE     EVENT/LOCATION

 330 PM      MOREHOUSE       LA        STATE POLICE REPORTED...STRUCTURAL DAMAG
                                       JUST WEST OF BEEKMAN...TREES WERE
                                       DOWNED ON LA HIGHWAY 140...MINOR
                                       INJURIES.
 407 PM      UNION           LA        TORNADO SIGHTED IN POINT OR 15 MILES
                                       SOUTHEAST OF FARMERVILLE.

Local storm report, Aug 26, 4:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
425 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26TH

TIME CDT    PARISH/COUNTY    STATE     EVENT/LOCATION

 330 PM      MOREHOUSE       LA        STATE POLICE REPORTED...STRUCTURAL
                                       DAMAGE JUST WEST OF BEEKMAN...TREES
                                       WERE DOWNED ON LA HIGHWAY 140...MINOR
                                       INJURIES IN MOBILE HOMES.
 400 PM      UNION           LA        TORNADO REPORTED JUST WEST OF MARION
                                       CAUSING TREE DAMAGE.
 407 PM      UNION           LA        TORNADO SIGHTED IN POINT OR 15 MILES
                  >                     SOUTHEAST OF FARMERVILLE.
 417 PM      UNION           LA        BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN 5 MILES
                                       WEST SOUTHWEST OF POINT WITH 4
                                       MINOR INJURIES.

Special weather statement, Aug 26, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-270030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
610 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...
...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN TIER PARISHES OF NORTHEAST
LOUISIANA UNTIL 1 AM...
...SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...

AT 610 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO
MODERATE RAIN EAST OF A LINE FROM HOMER LOUISIANA TO NATCHITOCHES TO
ALEXANDRIA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS INDICATED FROM NEAR LAKE PROVIDENCE TO
MONROE ON TO JUST NORTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA. HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT ACROSS
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA MAY RESULT IN FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN LOW AND POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

EARLIER ISOLATED TORNADOES OVER NORTH LOUISIANA HAVE DISSIPATED AND NO
SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING AT 610 PM.
.
DUE TO PROLONGED RAIN OF 24 HOURS...RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF FOUR TO OVER EIGHT
INCHES MAY ACCUMULATE BY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
fOVERNIGHT.

ELSEWHERE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER WESTERN
LOUISIANA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

Local storm report, Aug 26, 7:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
715 PM CDT WED AUG 26 1992

...STORM REPORT FOR AUG 26 1992...

TIME CDT     PARISH/COUNTY   STATE    EVENT/LOCATION

710 PM       MADISON         LA       TORNADO REPORTED 4 MILES EAST OF
                                      TALLULAH. NUMEROUS TREES DOWNED
                                      ACROSS THE PARISH ACCORDING TO
                                      THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN TALLULAH.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Tensas	62 min
Aug 26, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Madison, Tensas	56 min
Aug 26, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Franklin	68 min
Aug 26, 8:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin, Richland	5 hr

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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.