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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 9, 1992Cass County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 9, 1992, 5:00 PM CST for Cass County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 9, 1992, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 1992, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Cass County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 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

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, Mar 9, 2:44 PM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
240 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR MONDAY MARCH 9 1992

TIME CST    CNTY/PRSH  STATE  EVENT/LOCATION/DAMAGE

1230 PM     BOWIE/CASS   TX   FLOODING...SECONDARY ROADS...UNDERPASSES
                              IN TEXARKANA...NEW BOSTON AND LINDEN
100  PM     LITTLE RIVER AR   LOW AREA FLOODING NEAR FOREMAN AND INDEX
                              4.20 INCHES OF RAIN AT INDEX SINCE 7 AM
200  PM     MILLER       AR   FLOODING IN TEXARKANA ARKANSAS...SEVERAL
            HEMPSTEAD    AR   STREETS AND US 82 INTO SOUTHWEST HEMPSTEAD
                              COUNTY.
218  PM     RUSK         TX   ONE INCH HAIL AND HIGH WINDS DOWNED SEVERAL
                              TREES 5 MILES WEST OF HENDERSON TEXAS.
230  PM     GREGG        TX   ONE INCH HAIL AND HIGH WINDS NEAR EASTON
235  PM     HARRISON     TX   FUNNEL CLOUD 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARSHALL
                              TEXAS...NICKLE SIZE HAIL.

Local storm report, Mar 9, 4:43 PM CST, 17 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
440 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR MONDAY MARCH 9 1992

TIME CST    CNTY/PRSH  STATE  EVENT/LOCATION/DAMAGE

351 PM      EAST CARROL  LA   WIND DAMAGE...POSSIBLE TORNADO IN DOWNTOWN
                              LAKE PROVIDENCE. PATH OF DAMAGE 3/4 MILE
                              LONG...DOWNING NUMEROUS POWER LINES AND TREES.
                              DAMAGE TO NUMEROUS AUTOMOBILES...STRUCTURAL
                              DAMAGE UNKNOWN. DOWN POWER LINE CAUSED FIRE
                              AT A SCHOOL. FIVE MINOR INJURIES REPORTED
                              AND ANOTHER POSSIBLE INJURY AS A RESULT OF
            H                  FALLING TREES ON AUTOMOBILE.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BE RELAYED AS RECEIVED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	97 min
Mar 9, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Webster	97 min
Mar 9, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	97 min
Mar 9, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	East Carroll	34 min
Mar 9, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	61 min
Mar 9, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	66 min
Mar 9, 10:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Little River, Miller	4 hr
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, 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, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	68 min

Nearby

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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.