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River Flood Warning 101, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 1, 2019Wood County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at May 1, 2019, 9:45 AM CDT for Wood County, Texas. It took effect at May 2, 2019, 5:30 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 2019, 9:45 AM CDT (14:45 UTC)
In effect from: May 2, 2019, 5:30 PM CDT
Expired: May 16, 2019, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 14 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 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.

The river

Written for the forecast point Lake Fork Creek near Quitman (QTMT2).

Action stage: 15.5 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08019000, 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 May 1, 5:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 5:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 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
May 1, 4:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	SHV	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 14 more	3 days
May 1, 9:33 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Smith, Upshur, Wood	25 days
May 1, 9:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus	5 days
May 1, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Smith	4 days
May 1, 9:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg	5 days
May 1, 9:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin, Morris, Titus	15 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.