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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 2005, 5:11 PM CDT for Gregg County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2005, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gregg County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:30 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Lakeport, TX | WATER OVER THE JONES ROAD BRIDGE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KSHV 072214
FFWSHV
TXC183-080015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
511 PM CDT SUN AUG 7 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
GREGG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 507 PM CDT...SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN NEAR THE COMMUNITY
OF LAKEPORT IN SOUTHEASTERN GREGG COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR
TWO OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THERE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO
BACKBUILDING INTO LONGVIEW...WHERE HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO PRODUCE
FLASH FLOODING.
REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING FOR...
GREGG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 715 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3254 9489 3262 9476 3264 9470 3242 9470
3239 9466 3239 9459 3237 9459 3237 9479
$$
171 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KSHV 072312
FFSSHV
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
610 PM CDT SUN AUG 7 2005
TXC183-080015-
GREGG TX-
610 PM CDT SUN AUG 7 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR GREGG
COUNTY...
AT 603 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT RAIN HAD NEARLY ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA.
HOWEVER...REMEMBER THAT EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL
CAN CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY
ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS...EVEN AFTER RAINFALL HAS ENDED.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
LAT...LON 3254 9489 3262 9476 3264 9470 3242 9470
3239 9466 3239 9459 3237 9459 3237 9479
$$
17The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Titus | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 63 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.