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River Flood Warning 52, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 7, 2009Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at May 7, 2009, 10:06 AM CDT for Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at May 8, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 41 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 2009, 10:06 AM CDT (15:06 UTC)
In effect from
May 8, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 18, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
41 days
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 15:05 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 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 7, 5:48 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 5:48 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 6:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 11:29 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHVLincoln, Ouachita, Union3 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 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.