Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Jun 9, 1997, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)

Expired

Jun 9, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

County Columbia County, AR

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KSHV 092356
FFWSHV
ARC027-100200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
656 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...COLUMBIA COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAINFALL HAD FALLEN
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA ALREADY THIS AFTERNOON AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL
AMOUNTS TO NEAR ONE INCH ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. FLOODING WAS
REPORTED ACROSS COLUMBIA COUNTY ALREADY TONIGHT NEAR MACEDONIA TO
EMERSON ARKANSAS.
 
LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO
HOURS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AS THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY
EASTWARD.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
IMMEDIATELY.
 
13/04

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 56 minutes earlier.

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

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.