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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Shreveport, LA

January 29, 1999Marion County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 29, 1999, 11:29 PM CST for Marion County, Texas. 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
Jan 29, 1999, 11:29 PM CST (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Jan 30, 1999, 3:30 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 317 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1999-01-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1341 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1999-01-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
5.8

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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 Jan 29, 3:15 PM CST, 8 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 3:15 PM CST, 8 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 29, 7:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith62 min
Jan 29, 8:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee30 min
Jan 29, 8:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith48 min
Jan 29, 8:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg65 min
Jan 29, 9:12 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSHVGregg, Smith4 hr
Jan 29, 11:29 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSHVBowie, Cass4 hr
Jan 30, 5:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPanola48 min
Jan 29, 9:34 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSHVBienville, Red River4 hr
Jan 30, 6:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.