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Special Weather Statement, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 3, 2024McCurtain County, Oklahoma

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this special weather statement at May 3, 2024, 3:33 AM CDT for McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
May 3, 2024, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2024, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Hail
0.25 in
Wind
40

County McCurtain County, OK

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 2, 6:50 PM CDT, 8 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 6:50 PM CDT, 8 hours 43 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 4:40 AM CDT, 22 hours 53 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
440 AM CDT Thu May 2 2024

LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-TXZ136>138-149>153-165>167-031100-
Caddo-Bossier-Webster-Claiborne-Lincoln-Union-De Soto-Red River-
Bienville-Jackson-Ouachita-Sabine-Natchitoches-Winn-Grant-Caldwell-
La Salle-Smith-Gregg-Harrison-Cherokee-Rusk-Panola-Nacogdoches-
Shelby-Angelina-San Augustine-
440 AM CDT Thu May 2 2024

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central Louisiana,
northwest Louisiana, east Texas and northeast Texas.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Showers and thunderstorms will spread east across East Texas and
North Louisiana today, ahead of an upper level disturbance that will
shift east across the region from Central Texas. Locally heavy
rainfall will be possible, with widespread rainfall amounts of one
to three inches, with isolated higher amounts, expected. Given the
saturated grounds from recent heavy rainfall, the threat for flash
flooding will be possible, before diminishing from west to east late
this morning through the afternoon. Showers and thunderstorms are
expected to become more isolated to widely scattered this afternoon,
before increasing once again late tonight.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will continue over
the region Friday before diminishing by afternoon. Brief heavy
rainfall may result in minor flooding of low lying, poor drainage
areas. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to become more
scattered over the region Saturday and Sunday, before drier and
hotter conditions return Monday through Wednesday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed today and late tonight for
rainfall and potential flooding reports.

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-031100-
Sevier-Howard-Little River-Hempstead-Nevada-Miller-Lafayette-
Columbia-Union-McCurtain-Red River-Bowie-Franklin-Titus-Camp-Morris-
Cass-Wood-Upshur-Marion-
440 AM CDT Thu May 2 2024

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Arkansas,
southwest Arkansas, southeast Oklahoma and northeast Texas.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Showers and a few embedded thunderstorms will shift east across
Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, and Southwest Arkansas today,
before diminishing from west to east by afternoon. However,
additional scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected to
develop and spread over the region late tonight ahead of another
upper level disturbance and weak surface front. Brief heavy rainfall
will be possible in the stronger storms today and late tonight, which
may result in minor flooding of low lying, poor drainage areas.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will continue over
the region Friday before diminishing by afternoon. Brief heavy
rainfall may result in minor flooding of low lying, poor drainage
areas. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to become more
scattered over the region Saturday through Monday, before drier and
hotter conditions return Tuesday and Wednesday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation should not be needed through tonight.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 2:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVRed River26 min
May 3, 3:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVRed River37 min
May 3, 3:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVRusk29 min
May 3, 4:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVRusk32 min
May 3, 5:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVBowie36 min
May 3, 7:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVWebster62 min
May 3, 9:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVClaiborne, Webster51 min
May 3, 9:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVBienville, Lincoln38 min
May 3, 4:25 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVHoward, Sevier35 min
May 3, 4:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVHoward18 min
May 3, 5:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVHempstead46 min
May 3, 6:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVHempstead, Lafayette, Miller36 min
May 3, 6:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada43 min
May 3, 7:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVUnion44 min
May 3, 7:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVUnion48 min
May 3, 8:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVColumbia, Lafayette55 min
May 3, 8:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVUnion45 min
May 3, 4:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVMcCurtain28 min
May 3, 7:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVMcCurtain52 min

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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.