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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 26, 2009Webster Parish, Louisiana; Columbia County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Mar 26, 2009, 7:56 AM CDT for Webster Parish, Louisiana; Columbia County, Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 26, 2009, 10:20 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 26, 2009, 7:56 AM CDT (12:56 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 26, 2009, 10:20 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 7, 2009, 10:03 AM CDT
In force
12 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 12:59 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 13.37 ft at Mar 31, 2009, 11:00 PM CDT.

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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 Mar 26, 5:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 5:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 6:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVNacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby23 min
Mar 25, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPanola, San Augustine, Shelby47 min
Mar 25, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine, San Augustine, Shelby37 min
Mar 25, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine, San Augustine, Shelby49 min
Mar 26, 4:40 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisorySHVAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more5 hr
Mar 26, 10:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHVNacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby23 hr
Mar 26, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine, San Augustine58 min
Mar 26, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine42 min
Mar 25, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, Bossier, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River, Webster56 min
Mar 25, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVDe Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine59 min
Mar 25, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVDe Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Winn34 min
Mar 25, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Ouachita and 3 more54 min
Mar 25, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGrant, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Winn59 min
Mar 25, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaldwell, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Winn61 min
Mar 25, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaldwell, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union, Winn67 min
Mar 25, 9:22 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVCaldwell38 min
Mar 25, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Winn61 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine37 min
Mar 26, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine44 min
Mar 26, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Winn44 min
Mar 26, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVNatchitoches, Red River, Winn37 min
Mar 26, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches, Sabine35 min

Nearby

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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.