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River Flood Warning 83, NWS Shreveport, LA

September 7, 2008Webster Parish, Louisiana; Columbia County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Sep 7, 2008, 9:34 PM CDT for Webster Parish, Louisiana; Columbia County, Arkansas. It took effect at Sep 8, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 7, 2008, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 8, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 11, 2008, 2:01 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Columbia County, AR, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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 Bayou Dorcheat near Springhill (SPHL1). The gauge peaked at 11.27 ft at Sep 9, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 10.5 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07348700, 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 Sep 7, 9:15 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 9:15 PM CDT, 19 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
Sep 8, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	61 min
Sep 8, 3:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SHV	Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	85 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2008 River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.