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River Flood Warning 46, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 9, 2015Gregg County, Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Mar 9, 2015, 1:35 PM CDT for Gregg County, Rusk County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 10, 2015, 3:34 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 9, 2015, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 10, 2015, 3:34 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 25, 2015, 8:34 AM CDT
In force: 15 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Gregg County, TX, Rusk County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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 river

Written for the forecast point Sabine River below Longview (LONT2).

Action stage: 23 ft
Minor stage: 25 ft
Moderate stage: 30 ft
Major stage: 35 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08020900, 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 Mar 9, 1:07 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 1:07 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 12:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1208 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2015

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-
TXZ096-097-108>112-101715-
SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE-
COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN-
UNION LA-DE SOTO-RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA-
NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE-
FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-
1208 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

WIDESPREAD RAINFALL WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE IN INTENSITY THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES.
WHILE WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED...ISOLATED MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING...WITH WIDESPREAD
RAINFALL TOTALS FOR THE EVENT OF ONE TO THREE INCHES POSSIBLE
BEFORE BEGINNING TO DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST. RAIN WILL MAKE A
RESURGENCE INTO NORTH LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THURSDAY...
AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES OVER THE REGION THURSDAY.
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO
OPERATORS...AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-101715-
WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG-HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-
NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX-
1208 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST TEXAS AND
NORTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

WIDESPREAD RAINFALL WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE IN INTENSITY THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES.
SOILS ARE ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS PRECIPITATION OVER THE
LAST WEEK OR SO...AND THE INCREASE IN INTENSITY WILL LIKELY LEAD
TO SOME FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY FOR LOW LYING AND POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...WITH WIDESPREAD
RAINFALL TOTALS FOR THE EVENT OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES POSSIBLE
BEFORE THE RAIN BEGINS TO DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST. ANY FLOODING
THREAT WILL MOST LIKELY COME TO AN END BY TUESDAY MORNING... AND NO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO
OPERATORS...AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.

VII

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 9:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Anderson, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity	25 days
Mar 9, 9:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Angelina, Houston, Polk, Trinity, Tyler	34 days
Mar 9, 9:30 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches	25 days
Mar 9, 9:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk	4 days
Mar 9, 9:39 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Smith	4 days
Mar 9, 10:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur	8 days
Mar 9, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	15 days
Mar 9, 1:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby	21 days
Mar 9, 1:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine	68 hr
Mar 9, 1:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg, Smith, Upshur, Wood	14 days
Mar 9, 1:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk	9 days
Mar 9, 5:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	4 hr
Mar 9, 6:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg, Smith, Upshur, Wood	4 hr
Mar 9, 10:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Red River, Webster	17 days

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.