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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Shreveport, LA

December 16, 2001Miller County, Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 16, 2001, 7:31 PM CST for Miller County, Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. 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: Dec 16, 2001, 7:31 PM CST (01:31 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2001, 9:30 PM CST
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Miller County, AR, Bowie County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 875 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 295 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 6.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KSHV 170133
FFWSHV
ARC091-TXC037-170330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
731 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 930 PM CST

* AT 730 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR   
INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN IN EASTERN BOWIE COUNTY OF TEXAS AND MOST 
OF MILLER COUNTY ARKANSAS INCLUDING ALL OF THE CITY OF TEXARKANA. 

THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...
URBAN HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES...ALONG WITH COUNTRY ROADS...AND LOW
FARMLAND.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 930 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3332 9405 3305 9401 3306 9389 3335 9374
          3357 9385 3354 9415

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 Dec 16, 3:00 PM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 3:00 PM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
300 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

A LOT OF WEATHER FOR THE FIRST PERIOD OF FORECAST. WEST TO EAST WARM
FRONTAL BOUNDARY CURRENTLY MOVING SLOWLY NORTH THRU CENTER OF CWA.
THIS WILL BE FOCUS FOR THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER AS UPPER LEVEL
TROF APPROACHES LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ALSO FLASH
FLOODING STILL POSSIBLE AS STORMS THIS EVENING WILL DUMP A FEW MORE
INCHES OF RAIN ON AREAS WHICH HAVE ALREADY FLOODED TODAY.
WILL EXTEND CURRENT FLOOD WATCH INTO TONIGHT...SAME ZONES...SINCE
THAT IS WHERE THE BULK OF THE RAIN FELL LAST NIGHT AND TODAY...AND
ALLOW OTHER AREAS TO BE HANDLED WITH FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS AS
NEEDED. HOWEVER...BY MIDNIGHT OR SHORTLY AFTER...MOST OF THE RAIN
SHOULD BE MOVING EAST OF THE CWA. COLD FRONT WILL PASS ALL OF CWA BY
AROUND 09Z OR 10Z TONIGHT...WITH PRECIP TAPERING OFF. WILL NOT
MENTION RAIN ANY ZONES FOR MONDAY...BUT IT WILL BE CLOSE IN EAST.
DRY SLOT WORKS RAPIDLY INTO EASTERN ZONES BY 12Z ON MESO ETA...SO
WILL FOLLOW THIS AS END OF RAIN. WRAP AROUND PRECIP IS RATHER CLOSE
TO NORTHERN ZONES ON MONDAY...BUT WILL JUST GO WITH CLOUDY FOR NOW.
DRY WEATHER THROUGH REMAINDER OF NEXT WEEK. MRF HAS NEXT SYSTEM
DIGGING RATHER DEEP...SO LOOKS LIKE A ANOTHER HEAVY RAIN PRODUCER.
THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A LITTLE COLDER AIR FOR CHRISTMAS EVE.

PRELIMS...
SHV 53/59/36/64 +000
MLU 58/62/36/63 +100
TXK 48/55/37/61 +000
TYR 47/57/36/63 +000
LFK 52/60/35/65 +000

.SHV...FLOOD WATCH...NORTHWEST OF A MAGNOLIA AR...RUSK TX LINE
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>072-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-
149-150

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 16, 3:50 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
350 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

1015 AM    GOLDEN                    OK   FLOODING
12/16/01   MCCURTAIN                      2 1/2 FEET OF WATER
                                          COVERING COUNTRY ROAD.
                                          5 MILES WEST OF BROKEN BOW.

840 AM    MOUNT PLEASANT            TX   FLOODING
12/16/01   TITUS                          FLOODING REPORT AT VARIOUS
                                          LOCATIONS: SE 15 AND SE
                                          26...SE 9 AND SE 38... AND
                                          A BRIDGE OUT AT NW 46 OFF
                                          OF 1402.

250 PM    BROKEN BOW                OK   FLOODING
12/16/01   MCCURTAIN                      CAR WASHED OFF ROAD ON OLD
                                          US 70.

NNNN

Local storm report, Dec 16, 5:00 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 PM CDT SUN DEC 16 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    JUDSON                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
12/16/01   GREGG                          TREES DOWN AND ROOF
                                          DAMAGE. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 9:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	4 hr
Dec 16, 6:01 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg	4 hr
Dec 16, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	42 min
Dec 16, 8:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Panola	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2001 Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.