Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 1993, 3:40 PM CDT for Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1993, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1993, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Claiborne Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 252046 COR FFWSHV LAC015-017-027-119-TXC203-315-252245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 340 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ...BOSSIER PARISH...CADDO PARISH...CLAIBORNE PARISH ...WEBSTER PARISH IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...HARRISON COUNTY...MARION COUNTY AT 340 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A BAND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM HOMER LOUISIANA ON TO BENTON LOUISIANA TO CADDO LAKE 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHREVEPORT TO LAKE O PINES NEAR JEFFERSON TEXAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES PER HOUR...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE RAINFALL OF TWO TO THREE INCHES IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS TIME...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF UP TO 3 INCHES. THIS WILL RESULT OF FLOODING OF UNDERPASSES...STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING THE SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE SPOTTY HAIL AND HIGH WIND GUSTS EXCEEDING 50 MPH. SOME TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY WHICH WILL DISRUPT POWER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE ARKLATEX...AND THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS OVER ABOUT THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF OF THE AREA. AN AREA WHERE HEAVY RAINS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS WILL AGAIN EXPERIENCE LOCALLY ARAINFALL. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN A 50 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NEAR MONROE LOUISIANA ON TO NATCHITOCHES ACROSS TOLEDO BEND LAKE TO NEAR NACOGDOCHES TEXAS. SOME AREAS IN THE TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY HAVE RECEIVED VERY HEAVY RAINS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWARD. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Jun 25, 1:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002-003-004- 005-006-OKZ021-034-040-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 135 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS...EXTREME SOUTH ARKANSAS...AND PORTIONS OF NORTH LOUISIANA UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 125 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. THIS 50 MILE WIDE BAND WAS LOCATED ALONG A LINE FROM ANTLERS OKLAHOMA TO DEQUEEN...PRESCOTT...AND WARREN ARKANSAS. WITHIN THIS BAND...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...HIGH WINDS...AND HAIL WERE INDICATED WEST AND SOUTHEAST OF PRESCOTT ARKANSAS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE BAND WERE LOCATED EAST OF HUGO OKLAHOMA AND BETWEEN DEQUEEN AND NASHVILLE ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTH AT NEAR 10 MPH. ALSO INDICATED BY RADAR WAS A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS AND MOST OF LOUISIANA. THIS AREA EXTENDED TO THE SOUTH OF A CANTON AND LINDEN TEXAS...ON TO RUSTON AND MONROE LOUISIANA LINE. THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED SOUTHEAST OF MANSFIELD LOUISIANA...WEST OF MARSHALL TEXAS...AND OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN NATCHITOCHES PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX WERE DRIFTING NORTHEASTWARD AT NEAR 5 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002-003-004- 005-006-OKZ021-034-040-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 135 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS...EXTREME SOUTH ARKANSAS...AND PORTIONS OF NORTH LOUISIANA UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 125 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. THIS 50 MILE WIDE BAND WAS LOCATED ALONG A LINE FROM ANTLERS OKLAHOMA TO DEQUEEN...PRESCOTT...AND WARREN ARKANSAS. WITHIN THIS BAND...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...HIGH WINDS...AND HAIL WERE INDICATED WEST AND SOUTHEAST OF PRESCOTT ARKANSAS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE BAND WERE LOCATED EAST OF HUGO OKLAHOMA AND BETWEEN DEQUEEN AND NASHVILLE ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTH AT NEAR 10 MPH. ALSO INDICATED BY RADAR WAS A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS AND MOST OF LOUISIANA. THIS AREA EXTENDED TO THE SOUTH OF A CANTON AND LINDEN TEXAS...ON TO RUSTON AND MONROE LOUISIANA LINE. THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED SOUTHEAST OF MANSFIELD LOUISIANA...WEST OF MARSHALL TEXAS...AND OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN NATCHITOCHES PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX WERE DRIFTING NORTHEASTWARD AT NEAR 5 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002-003-004- 005-006-OKZ021-034-040-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 210 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS...EXTREME SOUTH ARKANSAS...AND PORTIONS OF NORTH LOUISIANA UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 205 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS... AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. THIS 40 MILE WIDE BAND WAS LOCATED TO THE NORTH OF A PARIS TEXAS TO TEXARKANA ON TO EL DORADO ARKANSAS LINE. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS BAND HAD LIKELY PRODUCED SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. THE BAND WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT NEAR 10 MPH AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR HAIL AND HIGH WINDS WILL INCREASE AS THE BAND MOVES INTO NORTH LOUISIANA. ALSO INDICATED BY RADAR WERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WITHIN THIS AREA WERE INDICATED FROM CARTHAGE TEXAS ACROSS TOLEDO BEND LAKE TO NEAR ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS IN SOUTH ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS...AS WELL AS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX WERE DRIFTING NORTHEASTWARD AT NEAR 5 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002-003-004- 005-006-OKZ021-034-040-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 210 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS...EXTREME SOUTH ARKANSAS...AND PORTIONS OF NORTH LOUISIANA UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 205 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS... AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. THIS 40 MILE WIDE BAND WAS LOCATED TO THE NORTH OF A PARIS TEXAS TO TEXARKANA ON TO EL DORADO ARKANSAS LINE. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS BAND HAD LIKELY PRODUCED SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. THE BAND WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT NEAR 10 MPH AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR HAIL AND HIGH WINDS WILL INCREASE AS THE BAND MOVES INTO NORTH LOUISIANA. ALSO INDICATED BY RADAR WERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WITHIN THIS AREA WERE INDICATED FROM CARTHAGE TEXAS ACROSS TOLEDO BEND LAKE TO NEAR ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS IN SOUTH ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS...AS WELL AS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX WERE DRIFTING NORTHEASTWARD AT NEAR 5 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002-003-004- 005-006-OKZ021-034-040-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 225 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS...EXTREME SOUTH ARKANSAS...AND PORTIONS OF NORTH LOUISIANA UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 220 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EAST CENTRAL TEXAS...FROM SOUTH OF LAKE MURVAL OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARTHAGE TEXAS ACROSS TOLEDO BEND LAKE ON TO NEAR MANY LOUISIANA. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 10 MPH. ALSO...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. THIS BAND WAS LOCATED FROM PARIS AND TEXARKANA ON TO SOUTH OF EL DORADO ARKANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS 40 MILE WIDE BAND WERE INDICATED FROM SOUTH OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO ASHDOWN AND TEXARKANA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT NEAR 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS IN SOUTH ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS...AS WELL AS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002-003-004- 005-006-OKZ021-034-040-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 225 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS...EXTREME SOUTH ARKANSAS...AND PORTIONS OF NORTH LOUISIANA UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 220 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EAST CENTRAL TEXAS...FROM SOUTH OF LAKE MURVAL OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARTHAGE TEXAS ACROSS TOLEDO BEND LAKE ON TO NEAR MANY LOUISIANA. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 10 MPH. ALSO...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. THIS BAND WAS LOCATED FROM PARIS AND TEXARKANA ON TO SOUTH OF EL DORADO ARKANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS 40 MILE WIDE BAND WERE INDICATED FROM SOUTH OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO ASHDOWN AND TEXARKANA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT NEAR 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 M PH AND SMALL HAIL. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS IN SOUTH ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS...AS WELL AS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Lincoln | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.