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River Flood Warning 33, NWS Shreveport, LA

February 23, 2018Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Feb 23, 2018, 8:07 PM CST for Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Feb 24, 2018, 10:06 AM CST. It was in force for 77 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 23, 2018, 8:07 PM CST (02:07 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 24, 2018, 10:06 AM CST
Expired: May 12, 2018, 8:20 AM CDT
In force: 77 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Bayou Bodcau at Bayou Bodcau Lake (LBBL1).

Action stage: 171.5 ft
Minor stage: 172 ft
Moderate stage: 192 ft
Major stage: 198 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07349650, 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 Feb 23, 8:00 PM CST, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 8:00 PM CST, 7 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
Feb 23, 7:37 PM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Smith	22 hr
Feb 24, 11:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	4 hr
Feb 24, 12:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	52 min
Feb 24, 1:27 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus, Upshur and 1 more	4 hr
Feb 24, 2:31 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Red River	3 hr
Feb 24, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Marion	54 min
Feb 24, 4:43 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	92 min
Feb 24, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	62 min
Feb 23, 7:28 PM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	5 days
Feb 24, 5:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Claiborne, Webster	27 min
Feb 24, 12:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Little River, Sevier	62 min
Feb 24, 1:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Howard, Little River, Sevier	4 hr
Feb 24, 2:39 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Hempstead	51 min
Feb 24, 3:03 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada	4 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2018 Every river flood warning in 2018

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.