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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 19, 2016Howard County, Little River County, Sevier County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this freeze warning at Mar 19, 2016, 4:46 AM CDT for Howard County, Little River County, Sevier County, Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 20, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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: Mar 19, 2016, 4:46 AM CDT (09:46 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 20, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 20, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA

Counties Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Sevier County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Mar 18, 11:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 11:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 18, 11:39 AM CDT, 17 hours 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1139 AM CDT FRI MAR 18 2016

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-
TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-191645-
SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE-
COLUMBIA-UNION-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN-DE SOTO-
RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE-NATCHITOCHES-WINN-
GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-
MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG-HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-
PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE-
1139 AM CDT FRI MAR 18 2016

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...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS
THE REGION...NEAR AND NORTH OF A WARM FRONT THAT SHOULD LIFT NORTH TO
NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR BY LATE THIS FRIDAY
AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST INTO THE
REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TAP INTO THE WARM...MOIST...AND UNSTABLE
AIR NEAR THE FRONT...SUCH THAT SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THROUGH
THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY
THREATS...WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ALSO POSSIBLE. THESE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST
TONIGHT...AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE REGION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...

MUCH COLDER AIR WILL SETTLE SOUTH INTO THE REGION THIS
WEEKEND...WITH THE PROTECTED AREAS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND
ADJACENT SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS POSSIBLY EXPERIENCING FREEZING
TEMPERATURES SUNDAY MORNING. BETTER RADIATIONAL COOLING IS
EXPECTED AREAWIDE SUNDAY NIGHT...WITH MUCH OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS POSSIBLY OBSERVING FREEZING TEMPERATURES.
ELSEWHERE...AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED...WHICH MAY HARM TENDER
VEGETATION. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS IN
PROTECTING TENDER VEGETATION FROM THESE COLD TEMPERATURES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND AMATEUR
RADIO OPERATORS...MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 4:46 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	SHV	Angelina, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 14 more	11 hr
Mar 18, 7:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River, Webster	21 hr
Mar 18, 7:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	LaSalle	21 hr
Mar 19, 4:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, Red River, Webster	42 hr
Mar 19, 4:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches	21 hr
Mar 19, 4:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	Ouachita	9 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Arkansas, 2016 Every freeze warning in 2016

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.