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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Shreveport, LA

July 31, 1996Bowie County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 1996, 8:54 AM CDT for Bowie County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 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: Jul 31, 1996, 8:54 AM CDT (13:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 1996, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 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 13:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 31, 4:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 4:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 7:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Morris, Red River, Titus	4 hr
Jul 31, 7:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996 Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.