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Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 9, 1997Caddo Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1997, 6:29 PM CDT for Caddo Parish, Louisiana. 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
Jun 9, 1997, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Caddo Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 17 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1351 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 9, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
200 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1997

ALL NUMERICAL MODELING RESULTS SHOW THE OLD SWRN TROF CONTINUING TO
MOV E UNDERCUTTING CNTRL NOAM RDG AND WILL PROVIDE FA WITH YET
ANOTHER SOURCE OF PVA AND CONSEQUENTLY UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION
THROUGH TUE NIGHT.  ALTHOUGH NGM IS SLIGHTLY FASTER WITH THE MOVMT OF
THIS FEATURE...BELIEVE ETA AND AVN ARE MORE CORRECT AS THIS SHORT
WAVE TROF WILL BE SLOW TO MOV THROUGH FA AS IT UNDERCUTS RDG.

CURRENT SHORT WAVE TROF CAUSING TODAYS TSTMS EXPECTED TO MOV E AND
CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCT TO NMRS TSTMS OVER ERN FA THROUGH TONIGHT.

SFC AND BOUNDARY LYR DEWPTS WILL REMAIN HIGH THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WITH
SOME DRYING ABOVE BOUNDARY LYR AFTER TROF PASSAGE AND ASSOCIATED NVA.
WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION SCT TSTMS THROUGH WED WITH DAYTIME HEATING
AND CONTINUED MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOS.  VIII.

SHV 68/86/68/89 3322   MLU 70/84/68/87 5422

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 6:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVColumbia2 hr

Nearby

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

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.