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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Shreveport, LA

July 5, 20074 counties in Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Jul 5, 2007, 12:51 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jul 6, 2007, 5:07 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2007, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 6, 2007, 5:07 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 31, 2007, 4:33 AM CDT
In force: 24 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Gregg County, TX, Smith County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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.

The river

Written for the forecast point Sabine River near Gladewater (GDWT2).

Action stage: 25 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 33 ft
Major stage: 36 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08020000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Jul 5, 10:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 10:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 12:00 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CDT THU JUL 5 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>167-061100-
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 THU JUL 5 2007

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS
THE FOUR STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AHEAD OF A
STATIONARY UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER CENTRAL TEXAS. GIVEN
THAT THE AIR MASS REMAINS VERY MOIST...THE RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY AT
TIMES...WITH SOME STORMS PRODUCING ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN PER
HOUR...AND MOVING REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREAS. THE FLOODING THREAT
THIS AFTERNOON WILL PRIMARY REMAIN CONFINED TO THE WESTERN SECTIONS
OF EAST TEXAS...MAINLY WEST OF A GILMER TO HENDERSON LINE.
HOWEVER...LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING...POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL
BE POSSIBLE ANYWHERE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND
NORTH LOUISIANA WHERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE EXCESSIVE HEAVY
RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE
ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH
ISOLATED AMOUNTS NEARING FOUR INCHES POSSIBLE.

WHILE THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DIMINISH A BIT LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ADDITIONAL REDEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY TONIGHT
OVER ALL OF THE FOUR STATE REGION...AS THIS UPPER LEVEL LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY OR SLOWLY LIFTS A
TAD NORTHEAST TOWARDS NORTHEAST TEXAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS OVERNIGHT...WITH A MORE WIDESPREAD THREAT
OF FLASH FLOODING INCREASING AS THE SOILS REMAIN SATURATED. RAINFALL
AMOUNTS TONIGHT OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS NEARING
FIVE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...WITH THE HEAVIER RAINFALL
AXIS CONFINED MAINLY SOUTH OF A CLARKSVILLE TEXAS...TO TEXARKANA AND
STAMPS ARKANSAS LINE...INCLUDING NORTHWEST LOUISIANA WEST OF A MINDEN
TO NATCHITOCHES LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN PROGRESS
FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS MUCH OF THE FOUR STATE REGION...WITH THE
HEAVIEST RAINFALL AXIS EXPECTED TO BE OVER EASTERN TEXAS...
SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS...AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF
ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER THESE AREAS...WITH ISOLATED
HIGHER AMOUNTS OF FOUR INCHES POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAINTAIN THE THREAT
FOR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OVER AREA WHERE RAIN RATES
REMAIN EXCESSIVE...AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME
AREAS. RAINFALL INTENSITIES ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH SOME BY LATE
MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON...THUS REDUCING THE FLOOD THREAT.
ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM REDEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE FRIDAY
NIGHT OVER EAST TEXAS...SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS...AND NORTH LOUISIANA
AS THIS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE LINGERS OVER THE REGION...THUS
CONTINUING THE POTENTIAL FLOODING THREAT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS WELL.

PLEASE STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL
FLOOD THREAT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND
POSSIBLE NORTHWEST LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 5, 11:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 9:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee	4 hr
Jul 5, 10:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Anderson, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity	23 days
Jul 5, 10:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Angelina, Houston, Polk, Trinity, Tyler	33 days
Jul 5, 10:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Smith	4 hr
Jul 5, 12:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Wood	5 days
Jul 5, 4:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	SHV	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more	29 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2007 Every river flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.