Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Mar 2, 1997, 9:27 AM CST (15:27 UTC)

Expired

Mar 2, 1997, 1:30 PM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Bienville Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:26 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 021533 RRA
FFWSHV
LAC111-013-015-027-031-061-081-119-021930-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED COR
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
927 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS...
 
IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...UNION PARISH
 
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...BIENVILLE PARISH...BOSSIER PARISH...DE SOTO PARISH
   ...LINCOLN PARISH...RED RIVER PARISH...WEBSTER PARISH
   ...CLAIBORNE PARISH...
 
AT 925 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN A 100 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED
GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS
SOUTHWEST TO NEAR SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY LOUISIANA AND INTO
EAST TEXAS TO NEAR LUFKIN.  WITHIN THIS AREA...HEAVY RAINFALL WITH
AMOUNTS OF 1/2 TO NEAR 1 INCH PER HOUR WAS OCCURRING ACROSS
NORTHERN LOUISIANA. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING OVER A REGION
THAT HAD FROM 3 TO 4 INCHES OVERNIGHT WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS TO
NEAR 5 INCHES WHICH HAS AND WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. MANY
ROADS WILL BE AFFECTED BY HIGH WATER...ROAD AND CULVERT WASHOUTS
WILL OCCUR...AND HOMES AND BUSINESSES WILL BE FLOODED.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
IMMEDIATELY.
 
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 Mar 2, 8:40 AM CST, 47 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
840 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997

H500 LOW OVER W TX ATTM WITH H850 LOW OVER SE TX. AS UPR LVL TROF
AND COLD POCKET BGN PULLING TO THE E WILL LIKELY SEE AN INCREASE
IN AMOUNT OF SVR WX LATE THIS MRNG AND ERLY THIS AFTN.

NEW ETA HAS THIS H500 LOW OVER NE TX BY 00Z TONIGHT WITH VORT MAX
WORKING ACRS SE TX AND INTO SW LA BY THIS EVNG. HEAVY RAIN SHUD
PRECEDE THIS FTR ACRS SRN 1/2 OF CWA.

SEE NO REASON TO MAKE SIG CHANGES TO GOING FCST EXCEPT TO TWEAK
TEMPS AS HIGHS WIL LIKELY NOT GET AS WARM AS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT ACRS
NRN LA.

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Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.