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Flash Flood Watch 9, NWS Shreveport, LA

July 3, 200721 counties in Texas; 7 parishes in Louisiana; Lafayette County, Miller County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood watch at Jul 3, 2007, 5:02 AM CDT for 21 counties in Texas; 7 parishes in Louisiana; Lafayette County, Miller County, Arkansas. It took effect at Jul 3, 2007, 6:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2007, 5:02 AM CDT (10:02 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 3, 2007, 6:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jul 3, 2007, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Flood severity
None
All 30 counties

Lafayette County, AR, Miller County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:03 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 278 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 497 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 2, 10:17 PM CDT, 6 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 10:17 PM CDT, 6 hours 45 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 12:00 PM CDT, 17 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CDT MON JUL 2 2007

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-031100-
ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE-
CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD-
HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION-
MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA-
PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX-
SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR-
WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD-
1200 PM CDT MON JUL 2 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. DUE TO AN UNSTABLE AND VERY MOIST
ATMOSPHERE...RAINFALL WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES...WITH RAINFALL RATES
UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR. ALSO...A FEW STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND FREQUENT AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY
LIGHTNING.

AREAS WHICH HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST WEEK OR
SO...WHICH INCLUDES PARTS OF EAST NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS...AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR
FLASH FLOODING. THIS AREA IS GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF
A LINE FROM WELLS TEXAS...TO MOUNT ENTERPRISE...MARSHALL...AND
TEXARKANA...THEN NORTH TO NASHVILLE AND DIERKS ARKANSAS.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA UNTIL 4 AM
TUESDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WORKWEEK...MAINLY DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THE MORE INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...
AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY
FOR SUPPORT IN THE EVENT FLASH FLOODING OCCURS.

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2007Flash Flood Watches in Louisiana, 2007Flash Flood Watches in Arkansas, 2007Every flash flood watch in 2007

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.