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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 1996, 11:40 AM CDT for De Soto Parish, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. 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
- Aug 28, 1996, 11:40 AM CDT (16:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1996, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties De Soto Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 28, 10:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 10:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CDT WED AUG 28 1996 RW/TRW ORIENTED ALONG A GENERAL TRAINING BAND NE TX...NW LA...CNTRL LA WITH ACTIVITY MOVG SE. SOME FLOODING PSBL WITH CONT RAIN. HOWEVER... DO NOT EXPECT MUCH ADDITIONAL REDVLPMNT THIS AFTN AS MODELS INDICATE LULL IN LIFT PRECEDING SHEAR ZONE DROPPING INTO AREA UNDER NW FLOW LATE TONITE AND THURSDAY. ALSO...TEMPS REMAINING VERY COOL IN LOWER/MID 70S THIS MRNG UNDER THICK CLD CVR SO MAY NOT GET MUCH DIURNAL HEATING AID. LEAVE IN HIGH POPS AS VRY MOIST AIR SHOULD STILL SUPPORT NRMS RW. SEE NO THREAT OF SVR TODAY. FOR TEMPS...ANYONE REACHING EVEN MID 80S WILL BE DOING GOOD. VII
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 9:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-291600- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CDT WED AUG 28 1996 A DEEP LAYER OF MOISTURE REMAINS OVER THE FOUR STATE AREA TODAY. MODERATELY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO INTERACT WITH THIS MOISTURE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO POSSIBLY NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER...DUE TO LACK OF UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS OR STRONG SURFACE HEATING DUE TO CLOUD COVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS. THEREFORE ACTIVATION OF HAM RADIO SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SEVERE STORM SPOTTHERS WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT. 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 12:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.