Alert archive / Oklahoma / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2002, 5:29 AM CST for McCurtain County, Oklahoma; Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 30, 2002, 5:29 AM CST (11:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 11:15 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McCurtain County, OK, Red River County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 2462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSHV 301129 FFWSHV OKC089-TXC387-301715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 528 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RED RIVER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 1115 AM CST * AT 528 AM CST...THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...INDICATED A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE RIVER VALLEY OF RED RIVER COUNTY TEXAS...AND MCCURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES...AND GROUND REPORTS OF SLIGHTLY OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MCCURTAIN COUNTY...NEAR THE IDABEL AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS...WITH AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES POSSIBLE LATER THIS MORNING. FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF RED RIVER COUNTY...AND MCCURTAIN COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING. 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... RED RIVER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 1115 AM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 5:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Rusk | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 54 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Oklahoma, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.