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Special Weather Statement, NWS Shreveport, LA

August 19, 2025Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2025, 3:37 AM CDT for Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 2025, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2025, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 30

County Rusk County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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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 Aug 19, 1:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:37 AM CDT, 0 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
Aug 18, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	40 min
Aug 18, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	43 min
Aug 19, 12:17 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion	20 hr
Aug 19, 4:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee	41 min
Aug 18, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	De Soto	42 min
Aug 18, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	52 min
Aug 19, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sevier	35 min
Aug 19, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sevier	47 min
Aug 19, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	36 min
Aug 19, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Howard	76 min
Aug 19, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	60 min
Aug 19, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	67 min
Aug 19, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sevier	31 min
Aug 19, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Hempstead	34 min
Aug 19, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	39 min
Aug 19, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	38 min
Aug 19, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	McCurtain	80 min
Aug 19, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	McCurtain	31 min
Aug 19, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	McCurtain	31 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.