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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Shreveport, LA

October 25, 2025Cherokee County, Rusk County, Smith County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 25, 2025, 8:18 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Rusk County, Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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
Oct 25, 2025, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired
Oct 25, 2025, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Cherokee County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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 nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 283 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2025-10-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1102 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 2025-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 25, 10:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVGrant43 min
Oct 25, 11:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSHVGrant, LaSalle34 min
Oct 26, 1:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVGrant, LaSalle2 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.