Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2007, 5:24 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Rusk County, Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. 4 reports 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
- Jul 6, 2007, 5:24 AM CDT (10:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2007, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:52 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Whitehouse, TX | REPORTS OF THREE FEET OF WATER ACROSS HIGHWAY 110 IN WHITEHOUSE...POLICE ARE DIRECTING TRAFFIC OUT OF THE AREA. |
| Jul 6, 9:25 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Henderson, TX | PORTIONS OF HWY 84 FLOODED ACROSS RUSK COUNTY. |
| Jul 6, 9:25 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Rusk, TX | NUMEROUS ROADS ACROSS COUNTY FLOODED AND HAVE BEEN BARRICADED. |
| Jul 6, 9:25 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Tyler, TX | SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
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 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 061028
FFWSHV
TXC073-401-423-061430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
524 AM CDT FRI JUL 6 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT CONTINUES THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...RUSK...JACKSONVILLE...
RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HENDERSON...
SMITH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WHITEHOUSE...TYLER...
* UNTIL 930 AM CDT
* AT 521 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTING SEVERAL
STREETS CLOSED AND IMPASSABLE. STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND MAY END OVER THE NEXT HOUR...BUT RUNOFF FROM
OVERNIGHT RAINFALL WILL PERSIST INTO THE MID MORNING HOURS.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
TYLER.. OVERTON...JOINERVILLE...NEW LONDON...MINDEN...PINEHILL AND TATUM.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 3159 9517 3159 9526 3184 9543 3235 9544
3249 9559 3268 9559 3260 9548 3253 9500
3236 9498 3239 9450 3198 9461 3197 9451
3186 9448 3186 9499 3153 9489 3143 9500
$$
24The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Rusk, Smith | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Panola | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Panola | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Marion | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Smith | 4 days |
| Jul 6, 9:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches | 24 days |
| Jul 6, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Rusk, Smith | 118 min |
| Jul 6, 9:34 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Upshur, Wood | 11 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg | 49 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg, Rusk | 25 days |
| Jul 6, 10:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk | 22 days |
| Jul 6, 10:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Panola, Shelby | 24 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur | 6 days |
| Jul 6, 3:45 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion | 5 days |
| Jul 6, 3:50 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 42 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.