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River Flood Warning 41, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 15, 2025Webster Parish, Louisiana; Columbia County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2025, 12:41 PM CDT for Webster Parish, Louisiana; Columbia County, Arkansas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2025, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2025, 8:40 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Columbia County, AR, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Bayou Dorcheat near Springhill (SPHL1). The gauge peaked at 11.10 ft at Mar 14, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 10.5 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 21 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07348700, 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 Mar 15, 12:12 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 12:12 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 11:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 11:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 11:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 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
Mar 14, 8:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee	52 min
Mar 15, 3:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee	34 min
Mar 15, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk	37 min
Mar 15, 3:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee	21 min
Mar 15, 4:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Rusk	23 min
Mar 15, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches	36 min
Mar 15, 5:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Harrison	42 min
Mar 15, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion, Panola	38 min
Mar 15, 5:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby	51 min
Mar 15, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Harrison, Panola	44 min
Mar 15, 8:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	49 min
Mar 15, 5:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Jackson	27 min
Mar 15, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster	48 min
Mar 15, 6:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine, Winn	56 min
Mar 15, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Union	49 min
Mar 15, 6:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bossier, Claiborne, Webster	42 min
Mar 15, 6:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Jackson, Ouachita	39 min
Mar 15, 6:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	34 min
Mar 15, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Caldwell, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Ouachita and 2 more	53 min
Mar 15, 7:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	43 min
Mar 15, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine, Winn	49 min
Mar 15, 7:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn	23 min
Mar 15, 7:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Winn	37 min
Mar 15, 7:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita	32 min
Mar 15, 7:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Winn	27 min
Mar 15, 7:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches and 3 more	56 min
Mar 15, 8:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Winn	24 min
Mar 15, 8:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Ouachita	31 min
Mar 15, 8:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, LaSalle	31 min
Mar 15, 8:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn	31 min
Mar 15, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn	57 min
Mar 15, 9:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Natchitoches	36 min
Mar 15, 9:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Union, Winn	3 hr
Mar 15, 9:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	3 hr
Mar 15, 9:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Natchitoches	34 min
Mar 15, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Bossier	31 min
Mar 15, 9:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Ouachita	40 min
Mar 15, 9:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn	35 min
Mar 15, 10:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Ouachita	51 min
Mar 15, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Ouachita	25 min
Mar 15, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Caldwell, LaSalle	35 min
Mar 15, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Caldwell	23 min
Mar 14, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Hempstead	27 min
Mar 14, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Hempstead	32 min
Mar 14, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada	39 min
Mar 14, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada	40 min
Mar 14, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada	49 min
Mar 14, 10:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Nevada	36 min
Mar 14, 10:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Lafayette, Miller	23 min
Mar 14, 11:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Nevada	28 min
Mar 15, 1:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Nevada	28 min
Mar 15, 6:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Nevada	30 min
Mar 15, 7:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Columbia	46 min
Mar 15, 9:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Union	25 min

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.