1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 14, 2:30 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 330 AM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS NEAR DALLAS TO GREENVILLE TEXAS AND ARE NOW MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. IR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING VERY COLD TOPS JUST WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA. OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY BECOMING HARDER TO FIND EARLY SATURDAY BUT LOOKS TO BE ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS INTO CENTRAL LOUISIANA. ANOTHER WEAK FRONT/BOUNDARY STRETCHED ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS. UPPER LEVEL FLOW SHOWS SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER SOUTHERN ARIZONA WITH ANOTHER SHORTWAVE MOVING INTO THE GREAT BASIN. MODEL GUIDANCE AT 14/00Z IS SHOWING THESE COMING TOGETHER OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES TODAY AND INTO OKLAHOMA BY AFTERNOON. THE FIRST SURFACE BOUNDARY SHOULD MOVE SLOWLY NORTH AS A WARM FRONT DURING THE DAY TODAY AND BE THE FOCUS FOR SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS A SHORTWAVE MOVES EAST ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY. AIRMASS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE OVER NORTHWEST SECTIONS AS FRONT MOVES NORTH AND DAYTIME HEATING BUMPS TEMPERATURES NEAR 80 NORTH AND MID 80S SOUTH. ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING AND A FEW MAY BECOME SEVERE. LATE IN THE DAY ACTIVITY THAT DEVELOPS FARTHER WEST MAY MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS SO WILL PUT IN SOME SEVERE IN LATE AND EARLY TONIGHT FOR THIS AREA. COLD FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND WEST TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING WILL SLOW DOWN SUNDAY NIGHT AS SECONDARY FRONT MOVES DOWN FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS. COOL HIGH PRESSURE MOVES IN MONDAY WITH MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES EXPECTED AND COOLER TEMPERATURES...WHICH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK. LOOKING AT GUIDANCE VALUES AVN MOS IS MUCH HIGHER THAN NGM TODAY WILL PUT HIGHEST POPS...LIKELY TODAY INTO TONIGHT OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE OVER THE RED RIVER VALLEY INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. WILL TAPER RAINFALL OFF TO THE SOUTHEAST TO A CHANCE. WITH FRONT STILL AROUND SUNDAY NIGHT WILL LEAVE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SOUTHEAST HALF. SEVERE WEATHER IS A THREAT EARLY THIS MORNING AND ESPECIALLY LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH AVN SHOWING CAPE VALUES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 1500 TO 2500 J/KG ALONG BOUNDARY...LIFTED INDEX VALUES FROM -4 TO -6 AND HIGH MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES. ACTIVITY SHOULD SHIFT NORTH TONIGHT AND THEN BE LESS NUMEROUS TOMORROW AS MOISTURE MOVES EAST AND FRONT MOVES INTO THE FORECAST AREA. SHV 83/67/85/64 5322 MLU 82/66/86/64 4532 TXK 77/64/82/63 8431 TYR 82/67/84/63 5322 LFK 85/69/87/65 3212 .SHV...NONE. 09
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:45 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding rains led to numerous road closures including Hwy 8 and Hwy 82. Water was high enough to flood 5 homes in town.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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