Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Watches in 2015
Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood watch at Jan 2, 2015, 3:42 PM CST for 6 counties in Texas; 17 parishes in Louisiana; Columbia County, Union County, Arkansas. It took effect at Jan 2, 2015, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2015, 3:42 PM CST (21:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 2, 2015, 9:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2015, 3:18 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Flood severity
- None
All 25 counties
Columbia County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jan 2, 12:36 PM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 12:36 PM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 2, 1:07 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 107 PM CST FRI JAN 2 2015 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-031200- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE- CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD- HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION- MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA- PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX- SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR- WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD- 107 PM CST FRI JAN 2 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... PERIODS OF RAIN OR RIZZLE WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF THE FOUR STATE REGION ALONG WITH PATCHY FOG...WITH SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO EXPAND IN COVERAGE THIS EVENING OVER EAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SPREAD EAST ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA LATE. THE RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES...FALLING OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS. THUS...LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS...LOW LYING...AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE WITH WARMING TEMPERATURES AND APPROACH OF WARM FRONT NORTH AND SURFACE LOW INTO THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION SATURDAY MORNING...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS...ARE EXPECTED THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE CONTINUED THREAT FOR POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING AND FLOODING OF STREETS...LOW LYING... AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...MAY BE NEEDED LATE TONIGHT OVER EAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND WESTERN LOUISIANA...FOR RELAY OF ANY RAINFALL AND FLOOD REPORTS AND FOR LATE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY FOR PARTS OF DEEP EAST TEXAS INTO NORTH LOUISIANA AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 06
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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.