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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 13, 2007, 3:35 PM CST for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2007, 3:35 PM CST (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2007, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 6:05 PM CST | FLASH FLOOD | Quitman, TX | MANY ROADS HAVE BEEN FLOODED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, INCLUDING CR 2375, 1563, 3880, 3056, 2688, AND 4575. |
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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSHV 132139 FFWSHV TXC499-140130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 335 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 335 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS THAT CONTINUE TO MOVE REPEATEDLY OVER THE COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT MUCH OF THE COUNTY HAS RECEIVED TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN SO FAR TODAY...AND MODERATE RAINFALL PRODUCING A HALF AN INCH TO AN INCH PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THUS...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH EARLY EVENING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SHREVEPORT. LAT...LON 3270 9560 3257 9518 3296 9514 3295 9565 $$ 15
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KSHV 140015 FFSSHV FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 610 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007 TXC499-140130- WOOD TX- 610 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CST FOR WOOD COUNTY... AT 610 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE AREAS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT WIDESPREAD THREE TO FIVE INCH AMOUNTS HAVE FALLEN ACROSS WOOD COUNTY TODAY...AND AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 730 PM. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED THAT MANY ROADS HAVE BEEN FLOODED LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL LIKELY REMAIN FLOODED THROUGH AT LEAST THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE THE WATER SLOWLY RECEDES. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3270 9560 3257 9518 3296 9514 3295 9565 $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 4:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 49 hr |
| Jan 13, 3:31 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | SHV | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 10 more | 14 hr |
| Jan 13, 5:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Franklin, Red River, Titus | 4 hr |
| Jan 13, 5:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Smith, Upshur | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.