Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Nov 24, 1996, 7:33 AM CST (13:33 UTC)

Expired

Nov 24, 1996, 11:30 AM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, TX, Wood County, TX

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:32 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 241332
FFWSHV
TXC159-387-449-499-241730-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
733 AM CST SUN NOV 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS...
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY...RED RIVER COUNTY...TITUS COUNTY
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 730 AM CST DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS THAT CONTINUED
TO TRAIN OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA. THE AREA WAS ABOUT 30 MILES
WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM NEAR AVERY SOUTHWEST TO NEAR TALCO...
MT VERNON...AND QUITMAN TEXAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH.
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT RAINFALL TOTALS RANGED FROM NEAR
2 TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS TO NEAR 4 INCHES. THIS WILL
CAUSE FLOODING OF SOME ROADWAYS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND AVOID FLOODED
AREAS.
 
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
 
SIX

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 24, 3:47 AM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
340 AM CST SUN NOV 24 1996

THANKS FOR COORD FTW AND NEW.  FLASH FLOOD WATCHES FOR TX AND LA
COUNTIES/PARISHES...ALSO TO INCLUDE MENTION OF POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER.

WILL BE A WET...COLD...WINDY FORECAST THIS PERIOD. MODELS SIMILAR IN
SOLUTION FROM THE 24/00 UTC RUN WITH MINOR DIFFERENCES IN LOCATIONS OF
FRONTAL POSITIONS...MAX UVV...AND SURFACE LOW DEVELOPMENT AND LOCATION
THROUGH FORECAST CYCLE BUT NOT MUCH. LIKE TO ETA BEST SINCE A COMPROMISE
BETWEEN THE MODELS.

FOR SEVERE AND GENERAL THUNDERSTORMS DISCUSSION SEE MKCSWODY1 AND
MKCSWODY2.

SURFACE ANALYSIS THIS AM (3AM CST) SHOWED A COLD FRONT FROM SE
OK FROM NEAR MT HERMAN SOUTH TO NEAR KPRX (PARIS IN NE TX) AND THEN
SW ACROSS N CENTRAL TX TO NEAR KACT AND W TX TO NEAR KDRT. OUT AHEAD
OF THIS FRONT DEW POINTS ACROSS FA DEW POINTS RANGED FROM NEAR 60 OVER
THE EAST TO THE MID 60S OVER THE W SECTIONS OF CWA. SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ALONG AND NEAR THE FRONT.
EARLY THIS AM NORTHERN PARTS OF THE FA WERE IN THE RIGHT REAR
QUAD OF 25H JET AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN INCREASING IN THIS
REGION.

LOW TO DEVELOP ALONG SOUTHERN PART OF TX TO MOVE THROUGH S LA
TODAY AND TONIGHT AND THEN THROUGH MS EARLY MONDAY WILL PROVIDE
ABUNDANT MOISTURE OVER COLD AIR BEHIND SYSTEM WITH RAIN THROUGH
PERIOD.

SHV 66/40/44 ++8  MLU 68/46/47 8++

SIX

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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.