Alert archive / Texas / River Flood Warnings in 2008

River Flood Warning 76, NWS Shreveport, LA

August 12, 20084 counties in Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Aug 12, 2008, 11:06 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 12, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 2008, 11:06 AM CDT (16:06 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 12, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
Expired
Aug 13, 2008, 9:41 AM CDT
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Cherokee County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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 river

Written for the forecast point Mud Creek near Jacksonville (JKST2). The gauge peaked at 6.57 ft at Aug 13, 2008, 5:00 AM CDT.

actionminormoderate5101508/1208/1308/14
Action stage
8.5 ft
Minor stage
9 ft
Moderate stage
15 ft
Major stage
20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08034500, 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 Aug 12, 10:29 AM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 10:29 AM CDT, 37 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 12, 6:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 AM CDT TUE AUG 12 2008

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-121700-
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-
600 AM CDT TUE AUG 12 2008

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF
EAST TEXAS THIS MORNING...AND WILL SPREAD ACROSS MOST OF NORTHERN
LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO
TO FOUR INCHES POSSIBLE AT SOME LOCATIONS. PONDING OF WATER ON ROAD
SURFACES...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN LOW LYING AREAS...COULD CAUSE
HYDROPLANING...CAN BE EXPECTED WHEREVER HEAVY RAIN FALLS. MORE
SIGNIFICANT FLOODING POSSIBLE ACROSS AREAS WHERE SEVERAL INCHES
HAVE PREVIOUSLY FALLEN SINCE SUNDAY...WHERE THE GROUND IS ALREADY
SATURATED. INCREASED RUNOFF WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. IN ADDITION
TO FLOODING CONCERNS...A FEW OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS COULD
PRODUCE BRIEF BUT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...ESPECIALLY OVER LOUISIANA
PORTIONS OF THE AREA. RAIN AND STORMS WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF
BY LATER IN THE AFTERNOON FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST...AS A COLD
FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE REGION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER...HAM RADIO OPERATOR....AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED
LATE TONIGHT.

VII

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 12, 8:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 2:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCherokee3 hr
Aug 12, 2:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVSmith3 hr
Aug 12, 5:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCherokee3 hr
Aug 12, 5:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVSmith3 hr
Aug 12, 8:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVShelby61 min
Aug 12, 5:49 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySHVJackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union116 min
Aug 12, 6:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVOuachita, Union4 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2008Every 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.