Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Jun 13, 1996, 8:26 AM CDT (13:26 UTC)

Expired

Jun 13, 1996, 11:30 AM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

County Claiborne Parish, LA

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 131327
FFWSHV
LAC027-131630-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
826 AM CDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA...
 
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...CLAIBORNE PARISH
 
AT 820 AM...RADAR SHOWED RAINS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES FELL IN CLAIBORNE PARISH
BETWEEN 500 AND 800 AM. THE CLAIBORNE PARISH SHERIFF REPORTED SEVERAL
ROADS ARE FLOODING AND BARRICADES ARE BEING PLACED AT SEVERAL LOW WATER
CROSSING AROUND THE PARISH. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL
OVER THE PARISH...AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 1000 AM CDT.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE IN8TO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
 
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NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 13, 2:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 26 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
200 AM CDT THU JUN 13 1996

SHWRS AND TSTMS CONT TO MOVE EAST ACRS NE TX AND SW AR ERLY THIS MRNG
JUST TO THE N OF E-W ORIENTED THETA-E RDG ACRS THE NRN POTIONS OF THE
CWA. AM AGN NOT IMPRESSED WITH THE WAY MODELS ARE HANDLING MOVEMENT...
OR RATHER LACK THERE OF...OF VORT LOBES THRU THE AREA. NGM ONCE AGN IS
THE ONLY MODEL THAT WANTS TO MOVE VORT LOBES THRU THE CWA WHILE BOTH
AVN AND ETA STALL VORT LOBES OVR THE AREA DRNG THE DAY. THIS SEEMS
UNLIKELY. WUD EXCEPT SLOW MOVEMENT OF NGM...BUT NO MOVEMENT OVR AN
18 TO 24 HOUR PRD?! NOT LIKELY. THEREFORE FEEL NGM SOLN IS BETTER
FOR THIS FCST PRD.

CONTD SRLY LOW LVL FLOW SHUD KEEP ENUF LOW LVL MSTR ARND AND DAYTIME
HTG WILL COMBINE WITH VORT LOBE MOVG THRU THIS AFTN AND EVNG TO ONCE
AGN TRIGGER SHWRS AND TSTMS. SPC THINKING IS POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD
STG TO SVR PSBL. SEE SWODY1. BY FRI CHCS FOR PCPN BEGIN TO LESSEN AS
UPR LVLt RDG AND MID LVL RIDGING BGN TO BLD MORE INTO THE WRN PORTION
OF THE AREA.

WILL ONCE AGN STICK CLOSER TO NGM MOS TEMPS THAN COOLER AVN TEMPS.
WILL BUMP POPS UP A LTL AS WELL.

SHV 93/72/93/71 4331   MLU 92/70/91/71 4432

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