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River Flood Warning 36, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 19, 2008Wood County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Mar 19, 2008, 8:40 AM CDT for Wood County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 20, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 2008, 8:40 AM CDT (13:40 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 20, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 23, 2008, 8:43 AM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Flood severity: Minor

County Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:42 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 Lake Fork Creek near Quitman (QTMT2). The gauge peaked at 18.47 ft at Mar 20, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 15.5 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08019000, 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 Mar 19, 3:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 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
Mar 18, 7:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie	4 hr
Mar 18, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk, Smith	41 min
Mar 18, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, Upshur	41 min
Mar 18, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur	53 min
Mar 18, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Panola, Rusk	43 min
Mar 18, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	23 min
Mar 18, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion	41 min
Mar 19, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Morris, Red River, Titus	42 min
Mar 19, 1:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Howard, Little River, Sevier	4 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

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.