Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Shreveport, LA
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 97 min |
| Mar 9, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 61 min |
| Mar 9, 5:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 66 min |
| Mar 9, 10:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cass | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Rusk | 71 min |
| Mar 9, 2:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison | 59 min |
| Mar 9, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 97 min |
| Mar 9, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 68 min |
| Mar 9, 5:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cass | 3 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.