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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 27, 2015, 11:58 PM CST for Hempstead County, Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2015, 11:58 PM CST (05:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2015, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hempstead County, AR, Miller County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 462 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
470
WGUS54 KSHV 280558
FFWSHV
ARC057-091-280830-
/O.NEW.KSHV.FF.W.0113.151228T0558Z-151228T0830Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1158 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...
HEMPSTEAD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...
* UNTIL 230 AM CST
* AT 1157 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
TEXARKANA...HOPE...FOUKE...EMMET...BLEVINS...PERRYTOWN...GARLAND...FULTON...
WASHINGTON...BRIGHTSTAR...MANDEVILLE...RAVANNA...GENOA...MOUNT PLEASANT...
MCCASKILL...OZAN...MCNAB...PATMOS...OAKHAVEN AND FERGUSON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW! ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
IF YOU ENCOUNTER FLOODED ROADS...TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN! MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3396 9346 3348 9348 3348 9372 3343 9375
3344 9371 3332 9367 3328 9373 3318 9373
3314 9385 3302 9381 3302 9404 3355 9404
3353 9399 3358 9397 3355 9394 3360 9383
3365 9395 3374 9397 3375 9383 3401 9382
$$
19The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 6:07 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Miller | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 6:15 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Miller | 45 min |
| Dec 27, 6:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Nevada | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 6:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 28 min |
| Dec 27, 7:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 31 min |
| Dec 27, 7:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 8:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia | 27 min |
| Dec 27, 8:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 42 min |
| Dec 27, 8:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 33 min |
| Dec 27, 8:58 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller | 64 hr |
| Dec 27, 9:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 23 min |
| Dec 27, 11:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 78 min |
| Dec 27, 11:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 113 min |
| Dec 28, 12:19 AM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | SHV | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 15 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 61 min |
| Dec 28, 12:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 32 min |
| Dec 28, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 30 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.