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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 10, 2010Cherokee County, Smith County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2010, 6:38 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 2010, 6:38 AM CDT (11:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2010, 10:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Emergency
Flash flood emergency
Flood severity
None

Counties Cherokee County, TX, Smith County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2010-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2010-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 10, 4:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 4:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 1:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 12:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCherokee, Gregg, Smith6 hr
Jun 10, 9:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCherokee, Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, Wood6 hr
Jun 10, 10:03 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHVAnderson, Cherokee, Houston14 days
Jun 10, 10:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCherokee, Smith6 hr
Jun 10, 2:40 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySHVCamp, Cass, Morris, Titus3 hr
Jun 10, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVGregg, Upshur, Wood4 hr
Jun 10, 3:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCherokee, Smith4 hr
Jun 10, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVFranklin, Red River, Titus59 min
Jun 10, 4:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCamp, Franklin, Titus4 hr
Jun 10, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVCamp, Morris, Titus25 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.