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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 9, 1992Hempstead County, Little River County, Miller County, Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 9, 1992, 10:40 AM CST for Hempstead County, Little River County, Miller County, Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 1992, 10:40 AM CST (16:40 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 1992, 3:00 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hempstead County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Bowie County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 633 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 297 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
633 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 091647
FFWSHV
TXC067-037-ARC081-091-057-092100-

BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1040 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 300 PM CST  FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES/PARISHES IN
NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS..

IN NORTHEAST TEXAS... BOWIE AND CASS COUNTIES

IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...  LITTLE RIVER..MILLER..AND HEMPSTEAD COUNTIES

AT 1040 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATES ARE THAT OVER THREE
INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY.  AT 1040 AM RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOWED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER THE FLASH FLOOD WARNED AREA AND
FLOODING WILL DEVELOP AND CONTINUE WITH ADDITIONAL RAINS OF ONE TO
TWO INCHES.  THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND
SPREAD OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES..FOR THIS
REASON PERSONS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED BRIDES..LOW
WATER CROSSINGS..OR LOW SPOTS.  PERSONS SHOULD NEVER TRY TO
CROSS A FLOWING STREAM..EVEN A SMALL ONE ON FOOT.  IF CAUGHT
IN FLOODING MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL
NOON MONDAY...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST TEXAS THIS
AFTERNOON..FLASH FLOOD WATCHES MAY BE EXTENDED FOR OTHER PARTS OF
THE ARKLATEX LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IF HEAVY RAINS
CONTINUE...

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, Mar 9, 5:34 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-091230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
530 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992

...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO SPREAD ACROSS
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTH
LOUISIANA...

AT 525 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED
A 60 MILE WIDE AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED
FROM HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS ACROSS NASHVILLE ARKANSAS AND DEKALB TEXAS
TO NEAR KAUFMAN TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE
PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS NEAR ONE INCH...GUSTY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED IN A 12 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED
FROM NEAR TEXARKANA ACROSS DALBY TO NEAR SULPHUR SPRINGS TEXAS.

MOVEMENT OF THE AREA WAS EAST NEAR 25 MILES...WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL
STORMS MOVED NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR.
.
ANOTHER 65 MILE WIDE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDER-
STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR PINE BLUFF ARKANSAS ACROSS HOMER LOUISIANA TO
NEAR NACOGDOCHES TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA STORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING
PEA SIZE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND
FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED IN THE SHREVEPORT AREA AS WELL AS
NEAR CANFIELD ARKANSAS...NEAR STAMPS ARKANSAS AND NEAR WARREN ARKANSAS.

MOVEMENT OF THE AREA WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE
THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS TODAY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR PART OF NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL
TEXAS...GENERALLY SOUTHWEST OF TYLER TEXAS. THE WATCH WAS VALID UNTIL
800 AM.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 7:26 AM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-091500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
725 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992

...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO SPREAD ACROSS
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTH
LOUISIANA...

AT 720 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED
A 70 MILE WIDE AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED
FROM ARKADELPHIA ARKANSAS ACROSS ASHDOWN ARKANSAS AND NAPLES TEXAS TO
NEAR TERELL TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS NEAR ONE INCH...GUSTY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...PEA SIZE
HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF CANFIELD ARKANSAS...
NEAR DOUGLASSVILLE AND NEAR DANGERFIELD TEXAS.

MOVEMENT OF THE AREA WAS EAST NEAR 25 MILES...WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL
STORMS MOVED NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR.
.
ANOTHER 65 MILE WIDE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDER-
STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR STAR CITY ARKANSAS ACROSS JUNCTION CITY
ARKANSAS AND MINDEN LOUISIANA TO NEAR CUSHING TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA
STORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY
WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WERE NOTED SOUTHEAST OF
HAYNESVILLE LOUISIANA AND WEST OF JUNCTION CITY ARKANSAS.

MOVEMENT OF THE AREA WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE
THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 35 MILES AN HOUR.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS TODAY.

A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM
800 AM TO NOON.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 8:31 AM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-091700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
815 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992

TORNADO WATCH IN EFFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...AND THE THREAT
OF SEVERE STORMS AND FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL EXSISTS FOR MUCH OF THE
ARKLATEX BEFORE THE DAY IS OVER.

PERSONS IN THE ARKLATEX ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANG-
ING WEATHER CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY AFTER MID MORNING OVER THE WESTERN
SECTIONS AND OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE STORMS WERE INDICATED OVER THE IMMEDDIATE ARKLATEX
AT 810 MPH CST..WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SHOWERS ALONG WITH ISOLATED THUNDER-
STORMS CONTINUE OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA. RAINFALL OF ONE TO
OVER TWO INCHES OCCURRED OVERNIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING OVER PARTS
OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...EXTREME NORTHEAST  EXAS AND EXTREME NORTHWEST
LOUISIANA.

AT 810 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RARARIN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A
70 MILE WIDE ARA OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS  NORTH OF
A LAKEFROM  POVIDENCE LOUISIANA...CADDO LAKE...TYLER AND WACO TEXCAS.
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED AT 810 AM CST  EAST OF SPRINGHILL
LOUISIAN AND  SOUTHEAST OF TEXARKANA. A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED FROM NEAR TEXARKANA TO WACO TEXAS MOVING EAAST.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER SOUTHWEAST TEXAS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS
THE AREA  BY MID  MORNING AND STORNS OVER RHT WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE
AREA WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY AND MAY REACH SEVERE INTENSITY AND SPREAD EAST
AND NORTHEAST.  FLOODING WILL LIKELU DEVELOP WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN
LOW AREAS AS CREEKS ARE RUNNING HIGH AND THE GROUND IS NEAR SATURATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 8:47 AM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-091700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT    CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
815 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992

TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...AND THE THREAT
OF SEVERE STORMS AND FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL EXSISTS FOR MUCH OF THE
ARKLATEX BEFORE THE DAY IS OVER.

PERSONS IN THE ARKLATEX ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANG-
ING WEATHER CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY AFTER MID MORNING OVER THE WESTERN
SECTIONS AND OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE STORMS WERE INDICATED OVER THE IMMEDDIATE ARKLATEX
AT 810 MPH CST..WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SHOWERS ALONG WITH ISOLATED THUNDER-
STORMS CONTINUE OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA. RAINFALL OF ONE TO
OVER TWO INCHES OCCURRED OVERNIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING OVER PARTS
OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS AND EXTREME NORTHWEST
LOUISIANA.

AT 810 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RARAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A
70 MILE WIDE AREA OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS  NORTH OF
A LINE FROM LAKE POVIDENCE LOUISIANA...CADDO LAKE...TYLER AND WACO TEXCAS.
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED AT 810 AM CST  EAST OF SPRINGHILL
LOUISIANA AND  SOUTHEAST OF TEXARKANA. A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED FROM NEAR TEXARKANA TO WACO TEXAS MOVING EAST.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER SOUTHWWSST TEXAS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS
THE AREA  BY MID  MORNING AND STORNS OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE
AREA WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY AND MAY REACH SEVERE INTENSITY AND SPREAD EAST
AND NORTHEAST.  FLOODING WILL LIKELY DEVELOP WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN
LOW AREAS AS CREEKS ARE RUNNING HIGH AND THE GROUND IS NEAR SATURATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 10:10 AM CST, 30 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-091700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1005 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992

TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...AND THE THREAT
OF SEVERE STORMS AND FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL EXISTS FOR MUCH OF THE
ARKLATEX BEFORE THE DAY IS OVER.

PERSONS IN THE ARKLATEX ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANG-
ING WEATHER CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY AFTER MID MORNING OVER THE WESTERN
SECTIONS AND OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE STORMS WERE INDICATED OVER THE IMMEDIATE ARKLATEX
AT 1000 AM CST..WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SHOWERS ALONG WITH ISOLATED THUNDER-
STORMS CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF. RAINFALL OF ONE TO OVER
TWO INCHES OCCURRED OVERNIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING OVER PARTS
OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS AND EXTREME NORTHWEST
LOUISIANA AND HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED TO FALL OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS
JUST NORTH OF THE LOUISIANA BORDER. ALSO HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING
OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT AREA OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM
ASHDOWN AND TEXARKANA ARKANSAS AND DEKALB TEXAS SOUTHWEST THROUGH MOUNT
PLEASANT TO NEAR WACO TEXAS.  FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT FOR
SOME OF THE COUNTIES IN THE MIDDLE SULPHUR RIVER BASIN AND FLASH FLOOD
WARNIGS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR BOWIE AND CASS COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
AND LITTLE RIVER..HEMPSTEAD..AND MILLER COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS.

AT 1000 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RARAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A
70 MILE WIDE AREA OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS  NORTH OF
A LINE FROM LAKE PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA WEST ALONG THE LOUISIANA/ARKANSAS
BORDER TO NEAR CADDO LAKE IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND TO NEAR TYLER AND
WACO TEXAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND JUST NORTH OF THE
LOUISIANA/ARKANSAS BORDER AND FROM ASHDOWN ARKANSAS SOUTHWEST ACROSS
NEW BOSTON..MT PLEASANT AND TO NEAR WACO TEXAS. THE SYSTEM WAS MOVING
VERY LITTLE WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND MOVING OVER
THE SAME GENERAL AREA.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS
THE AREA BY MID MORNING AND STORMS OVER THE WESTE"RN SECTIONS OF THE
AREA WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY AND MAY REACH SEVERE INTENSITY AND SPREAD EAST
AND NORTHEAST.  FLOODING WILL LIKELY DEVELOP WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN
LOW AREAS AS CREEKS ARE RUNNING HIGH AND THE GROUND NEAR SATURATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 3:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia97 min
Mar 9, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia, Nevada61 min
Mar 9, 5:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSHVColumbia, Lafayette, Miller3 hr
Mar 9, 5:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia66 min
Mar 9, 10:40 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningSHVCass4 hr
Mar 9, 2:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg, Harrison, Rusk71 min
Mar 9, 2:31 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVHarrison59 min
Mar 9, 3:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison, Panola97 min
Mar 9, 4:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCass68 min
Mar 9, 5:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSHVCass3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1992Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.