Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 1992, 1:53 PM CDT for Miller County, Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1992, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Miller County, AR, Bowie County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 021854 FFWSHV ARC091-TXC037-022100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 153 PM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...MILLER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...BOWIE COUNTY AT 150 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUED TO INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM NEAR NEW BOSTON TEXAS TO THE TEXARKANA AREA. ALSO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING NEAR DODDRIDGE ARKANSAS. TEXARKANA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED ONE AND THREE QUARTER INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE PAST HOUR. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. FLOODING WILL DEVELOP ESPECIALLY IN LOW AREAS AND NEAR SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING IN THESE AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. &
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, Aug 2, 9:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-021600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 945 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF EAST TEXAS. AT 940 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS...TO THE WEST OF A AVERY...LONGVIEW...AND SAN AUGUSTINE LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF CLARKSVILLE AND FROM PITTSBURG TO GLADEWATER AND ARP TEXAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTH ARKANSAS NEAR DIERKS AND NEAR SPARKMAN. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT NEAR 10 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS OVER EAST TEXAS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. ALSO...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND FORECASTS.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 10:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-021700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1030 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EAST TEXAS. AT 1025 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS...TO THE WEST OF A DEKALB...HALLSVILLE AND LUFKIN TEXAS LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEKALB AND FROM LONE STAR TO GLADEWATER ON TO EAST OF TLYER TEXAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS OVER EAST TEXAS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEDAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. ALSO...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND FORECASTS.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 11:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-021730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1130 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 1992 ...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS... AT 1130 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 50 MILE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM NEW BOSTON TEXAS TO MARSHALL TO TIMPSON. IN THIS AREA VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING FROM NEAR DOUGLASSVILLE TO LAKE O THE PINES. VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO INDICATED NEAR WINONA AND ARP. ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTING...AND SMALL HAIL MAY OCCUR. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WERE INDICATED FROM NEAR LUFKIN TEXAS TO JUST SOUTH OF COUSHATTA LOUISIANA. . THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE ARKLATEX. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN ENCOUNTERING HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nevada | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 41 min |
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.