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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 13, 1996Bowie County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1996, 10:37 AM CDT for Bowie County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1996, 10:37 AM CDT (15:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Miller County, AR, Bowie County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 361 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 473 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
473 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 13, 9:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 9:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:43 AM CDT, 54 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:09 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches50 min
Jun 13, 8:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVClaiborne3 hr
Jun 13, 8:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier51 min
Jun 13, 9:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVBossier, Webster3 hr
Jun 13, 11:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVClaiborne2 hr
Jun 13, 11:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCaddo4 hr
Jun 13, 12:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVBossier, Webster3 hr
Jun 12, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby63 min
Jun 13, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee65 min
Jun 13, 8:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVLafayette3 hr
Jun 13, 11:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVLafayette2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.