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River Flood Warning 87, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 1, 2025Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this river flood warning at May 1, 2025, 11:15 AM CDT for Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at May 3, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 2025, 11:15 AM CDT (16:15 UTC)
In effect from: May 3, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 7, 2025, 10:38 AM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Bayou Bodcau at Bayou Bodcau Lake (LBBL1).

Action stage: 171.5 ft
Minor stage: 172 ft
Moderate stage: 192 ft
Major stage: 198 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07349650, 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, 11:03 AM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 11:03 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 8:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 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
Apr 30, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee	44 min
Apr 30, 8:20 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur	38 hr
Apr 30, 8:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Anderson, Cherokee, Houston	19 days
Apr 30, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Rusk	37 min
Apr 30, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches	36 min
Apr 30, 10:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Smith, Upshur, Wood	6 hr
Apr 30, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches	34 min
May 1, 1:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola and 2 more	4 hr
May 1, 9:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Anderson, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity	19 days
May 1, 9:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Smith	72 hr
May 1, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion	23 hr
May 1, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	San Augustine	42 min
May 1, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Shelby	45 min
May 1, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	San Augustine	58 min
May 1, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	San Augustine	60 min
May 1, 6:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SHV	San Augustine	3 hr
May 1, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	San Augustine	63 min
Apr 30, 7:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River, Webster	41 min
Apr 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	6 hr
Apr 30, 10:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Webster	4 hr
May 1, 1:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	52 min
May 1, 1:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	4 hr
May 1, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	39 min
May 1, 1:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle	47 min
May 1, 8:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Bossier	26 min
May 1, 11:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Webster	15 days
May 1, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	De Soto	55 min
May 1, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	De Soto	46 min
May 1, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto	61 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.