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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 4, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT for Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2000, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2000, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSHV 040759 FFWSHV LAC015-017-041145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 300 AM CDT THU MAY 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOSSIER PARISH IN LOUISIANA CADDO PARISH IN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 700 AM CDT * AT 250 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER CADDO AND BOSSIER PARISHES INCLUDING THE SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE EXPECTED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN THAT HAS ALREADY FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF CADDO AND BOSSIER PARISHES. THIS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING...POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS. SOME ROADS AND HIGHWAYS MAY BE CLOSED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOSSIER PARISH IN LOUISIANA CADDO PARISH IN LOUISIANA UNTIL 700 AM CDT. LAT...LON 3251 9399 3233 9388 3231 9345 3259 9349
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 62 min |
| May 4, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 53 min |
| May 4, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 25 min |
| May 4, 4:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 62 min |
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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.