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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Shreveport, LA

October 17, 1994Bienville Parish, Bossier Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 17, 1994, 12:35 AM CDT for Bienville Parish, Bossier Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 17, 1994, 12:35 AM CDT (05:35 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 1994, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 266 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1994-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1994-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCaddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine7 hr
Oct 17, 12:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCaldwell, Franklin, Jackson, Ouachita, Richland, Winn7 hr
Oct 17, 12:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVMorehouse7 hr
Oct 17, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVRusk7 hr

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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.