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River Flood Warning 32, NWS Shreveport, LA

December 22, 2013Bienville Parish, Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Dec 22, 2013, 11:34 AM CST for Bienville Parish, Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Dec 23, 2013, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 10 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 22, 2013, 11:34 AM CST (17:34 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 23, 2013, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 2, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 10 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Bayou Dorcheat at Dixie Inn (MNEL1).

Action stage: 13.5 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07349000, 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 Dec 21, 5:40 PM CST, 17 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 21, 5:40 PM CST, 17 hours 54 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
Dec 21, 7:50 PM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Smith, Wood	6 days
Dec 22, 8:05 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion	50 hr
Dec 22, 11:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby	22 hr
Dec 22, 11:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine	43 hr
Dec 22, 11:30 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris	7 days
Dec 22, 11:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus	46 hr
Dec 22, 11:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin, Morris, Titus	60 hr
Dec 22, 11:36 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk	54 hr

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.