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River Flood Warning 41, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 3, 2009Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at May 3, 2009, 4:14 PM CDT for Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at May 12, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2009, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
In effect from: May 12, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 4, 2009, 11:15 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Bayou Bodcau at Bayou Bodcau Lake (LBBL1).

Action stage: 171.5 ft
Minor stage: 172 ft
Moderate stage: 192 ft
Major stage: 198 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07349650, 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 May 3, 2:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 11:55 AM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 10:32 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 11:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 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
May 2, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Gregg, Smith, Titus, Upshur and 1 more	52 min
May 2, 8:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	7 hr
May 2, 8:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Gregg, Red River, Smith, Titus and 2 more	3 hr
May 2, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Franklin, Gregg, Morris, Red River and 3 more	61 min
May 2, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Titus, Upshur, Wood	25 min
May 2, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 3 more	55 min
May 2, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Camp, Cass, Marion, Morris, Titus, Upshur	49 min
May 2, 9:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie	12 hr
May 2, 11:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus, Upshur and 1 more	11 hr
May 2, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus, Upshur and 1 more	61 min
May 3, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith, Upshur, Wood	65 min
May 3, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Marion, Morris, Titus and 1 more	37 min
May 3, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion	59 min
May 3, 1:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	53 min
May 3, 2:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion	9 days
May 3, 3:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Smith, Wood	8 days
May 3, 3:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Wood	6 days
May 3, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	62 min
May 3, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine and 1 more	53 min
May 3, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine	61 min
May 3, 11:08 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Upshur, Wood	58 hr
May 3, 11:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg, Smith, Upshur, Wood	15 days
May 3, 11:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Camp, Morris, Titus	5 days
May 3, 11:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	9 days
May 2, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	26 min
May 2, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Lincoln, Union	55 min
May 2, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	38 min
May 3, 2:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Webster	21 days
May 3, 5:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn	37 min
May 3, 7:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	4 hr
May 3, 7:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln	39 min
May 3, 7:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln, Red River, Webster	4 hr
May 3, 8:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson	59 min
May 3, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Winn	50 min
May 3, 9:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Ouachita	36 min
May 3, 11:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Webster	24 hr
May 3, 4:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Red River, Webster	42 hr
May 2, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Columbia, Union	8 hr
May 2, 10:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Nevada, Sevier	4 hr
May 3, 8:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.