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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Shreveport, LA

January 1, 2019Grant Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Red River Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Jan 1, 2019, 10:08 AM CST for Grant Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Red River Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Jan 2, 2019, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 1, 2019, 10:08 AM CST (16:08 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 2, 2019, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 12, 2019, 9:29 AM CST
In force: 10 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Grant Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Red River at Grand Ecore (GREL1).

Action stage: 32 ft
Minor stage: 33 ft
Moderate stage: 36 ft
Major stage: 39 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07351930, 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 Jan 1, 5:32 AM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 5:32 AM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 1, 5:47 AM CST, 4 hours 21 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
Jan 1, 9:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Wood	7 days
Jan 1, 9:47 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	7 days
Jan 1, 3:34 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	48 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.