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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 6, 2004Bowie County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2004, 8:41 AM CDT for Bowie County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2004, 8:41 AM CDT (13:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2004, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Miller County, AR, Bowie County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:42 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 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2004-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 137 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2004-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
137 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KSHV 061345
FFWSHV
ARC091-TXC037-061645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
841 AM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 AM CDT

* AT 837 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER THE
  WESTERN PORTIONS OF TEXARKANA...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NEAR...
  TEXARKANA BY 850 AM CDT
  OVER GARLAND BY 940 AM CDT


FROM THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE TEXARKANA
AREA DURING THE PAST FOUR HOURS...AND ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES
OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE...WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE FLOODING OF LOW
LYING AREAS...UNDERPASSES...AND SOME ROADS MAY BE CLOSED.
REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 1145 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3348 9373 3344 9374 3337 9369 3334 9371
      3333 9367 3328 9373 3325 9373 3323 9374
      3336 9421 3351 9419 3353 9412

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 11:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCamp, Franklin, Morris, Titus3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.