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Special Weather Statement, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2026, 4:51 PM CDT for Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 24 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 8, 2026, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2026, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Hail
- 0.50 in
- Wind
- 40
County Ouachita Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 8, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:05 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 7, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Red River, Titus | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Gregg | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Red River | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Wood | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 8:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Camp, Titus | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bowie | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Upshur | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 9:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cass | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cass | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 11:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cass | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 10:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Red River | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 10:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SHV | Red River | 115 min |
| Aug 8, 11:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SHV | Bowie | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie | 110 min |
| Aug 8, 2:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cass | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 2:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cass | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Titus | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Marion | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Gregg, Upshur | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Sabine | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Smith | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Smith | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Shelby | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 11:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bossier | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Union | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bienville, Webster | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Union | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Ouachita | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Ouachita | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Jackson, Red River, Winn | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Jackson, Red River, Winn | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Jackson, Winn | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Columbia | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Columbia | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 9:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Hempstead, Little River | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Hempstead | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 10:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Lafayette | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Lafayette | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 10:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SHV | Howard | 114 min |
| Aug 8, 10:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 11:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 11:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Howard | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 11:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SHV | Howard | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Union | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | McCurtain | 33 min |
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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.