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River Flood Warning 46, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 5, 20094 counties in Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at May 5, 2009, 7:23 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 39 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2009, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2009, 9:58 AM CDT
In force
39 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Upshur County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Little Cypress Creek near Ore City (ORCT2).

Action stage
12.5 ft
Minor stage
13 ft
Moderate stage
19 ft
Major stage
21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07346050, 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 5, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 12:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2009

ARZ050-051-059-070-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-061101-
BOWIE-CAMP-CASS-FRANKLIN-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-
RED RIVER TX-SEVIER-TITUS-
1200 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2009

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...WILL
MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND BORDERING AREAS OF
NORTHEAST TEXAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...BY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON. LARGE HAIL SHOULD BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT
WITH THESE STORMS...ALTHOUGH DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED
TORNADOES COULD BECOME A POSSIBILITY IF THE STORMS HAPPEN TO
BECOME MORE SURFACE BASED. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAIN IN THE
BALLPARK OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN AN HOURS TIME...OR 3 TO 4 INCHES
OVER THE PERIOD OF A FEW HOURS...IS POSSIBLE. AS SOME OF THIS
RAINFALL MAY OCCUR OVER AREAS WHICH RECEIVED 4 TO 6 INCHES OF
RAIN WITHIN THE PAST FEW DAYS...FLASH FLOODING COULD BECOME A
THREAT IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND EXTREME
SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
OF WEDNESDAY...RESULTING IN A CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING THREAT
ACROSS THE AREA. AN ADDITIONAL 1-2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE.
ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DECREASE...THE
POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ARZ060-061-071>073-LAZ001>006-012>014-TXZ124>126-136>138-061101-
BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-CADDO-CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD-
JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-MARION-NEVADA-OUACHITA-SMITH-UNION AR-
UNION LA-UPSHUR-WEBSTER-WOOD-
1200 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL PUSH OUT OF THE CENTRAL
PLAINS AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FOUR STATE REGION
BEGINNING EARLY THIS EVENING. ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY DURING LATE
AFTERNOON SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE A FEW STRONG STORMS...
WITH AN INCREASING THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS THIS EVENING...WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AN LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREAT. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED
TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAIN IN THE BALLPARK OF
1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE LIKELY. SOME OF THIS RAIN WILL FALL OVER AREAS
WHICH RECEIVED 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN WITHIN THE PAST FEW DAYS. AS A
RESULT...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A THREAT IN NORTH CENTRAL
LOUISIANA...AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
OF WEDNESDAY...RESULTING IN A CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING THREAT
ACROSS THE AREA. AN ADDITIONAL 1-2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE.
ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DECREASE...THE
POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED BY EVENING.

LAZ010-011-017>022-TXZ149>153-165>167-061101-
ANGELINA-CALDWELL-CHEROKEE-DE SOTO-GRANT-LA SALLE-NACOGDOCHES-
NATCHITOCHES-PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX-
SAN AUGUSTINE-SHELBY-WINN-
1200 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AS A WARM FRONT MOVES NORTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA.
A FEW STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS BY THIS EVENING...
WITH LARGE HAIL...AND BRIEF BUT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...BEING THE MAIN
THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
OF WEDNESDAY...RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND LOW LYING
AREAS. SOME MINOR FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THERE WILL ALSO BE THE
POSSIBILITY OF AN ISOLATED STORM BECOMING SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...DUE TO THE ISOLATED
NATURE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

VII

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 5, 3:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
318 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2009

OKZ077-052115-
MCCURTAIN-
318 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...
     MCCURTAIN...

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
     BATTIEST...BEACHTON...BETHEL...GLOVER...GOLDEN...HOCHATOWN...
     MOUNT HERMAN...PICKENS...RINGOLD...SHERWOOD...SMITHVILLE AND
     WRIGHT CITY...

AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLOUDY...OR 20 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CLAYTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
Local storm report, May 5, 4:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 5, 4:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 5, 6:13 PM 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
May 6, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River62 min
May 6, 6:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVFranklin, Red River, Titus62 min
May 6, 7:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCamp, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus4 hr
May 6, 7:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCamp, Franklin, Smith, Upshur, Wood51 min
May 6, 7:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 1 more46 min
May 6, 7:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVUpshur, Wood4 hr
May 6, 8:35 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHVBowie, Red River3 days
May 6, 10:00 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHVGregg, Rusk14 days
May 6, 10:11 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHVGregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur5 days
May 6, 8:20 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHVBienville, Bossier, Webster17 days
May 5, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNevada24 min
May 6, 12:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward31 min
May 6, 6:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVHempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Sevier3 hr
May 6, 7:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead, Howard, Nevada44 min
May 6, 10:14 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHVUnion57 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2009Every 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.