Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Jun 21, 1993, 7:30 AM CDT (12:30 UTC)

Expired

Jun 21, 1993, 10:30 AM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Gregg County, TX, Rusk County, TX

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BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
730 AM CDT MON JUN 21 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...COLUMBIA COUNTY...LAFAYETTE COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...BOSSIER PARISH...CADDO PARISH
 
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...GREGG COUNTY...RUSK COUNTY
 
AT 720 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED
A 35 MILE WIDE AREA OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THAT
EXTENDED FROM NEAR HAMBURG ARKANSAS ACROSS WALDO ARKANSAS TO NEAR
TALCO TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING FROM STAMPS
ARKANSAS TO NORTH OF EL DORADO ARKANSAS.
 
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 5 MILES AN HOUR.
 
ALSO...A 60 MILE WIDE AREA OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM NEAR MARION LOUISIANA ACROSS ARCADIA LOUISIANA TO SOUTH OF
LONGVIEW TEXAS. HEAVY RAINS WERE NOTED BETWEEN MARSHALL TEXAS AND
HENDERSON TEXAS...ALSO FROM SHREVEPORT TO BENTON LOUISIANA.
 
MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NEAR 5 MILES AN HOUR.
 
OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM WEST OF TYLER
TEXAS TO NEAR NEWTON TEXAS.
 
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER THE WARNED AREAS HAVE BEEN IN THE ONE TO
THREE INCH RANGE OVERNIGHT. AS MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE
TO FALL FLOODING WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP. OVER THE WEEKEND RAINFALL
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WAS IN THE TWO TO FOUR INCH RANGE...WHILE
RAINFALL IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA WAS IN THE THREE TO SIX INCH
RANGE. NORTHEAST TEXAS WAS HARDEST HIT WITH RAINFALL TOTALS OVER
THE WEEKEND OF FIVE TO FIFTEEN INCHES.
 
SMALL STREAMS WERE LEAVING THEIR BANKS IN THE WARNED AREAS AND
STREET AND URBAN FLOODING WAS DEVELOPING.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR C|AR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993

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.