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 Jun 23, 2:10 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 310 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 .DISCUSSION... BROKEN AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF LOWER E TX AND NORTHCENTRAL LA...HOWEVER...RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN GENERALLY LIGHT...ON THE ORDER OF A TENTH TO A QUARTER OR AN INCH SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS IS IMPORTANT SINCE THIS AREA APPEARS TO PRIME FOR POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAIN EVENT SETTING UP OVER SE TX THIS EVENING...SPREADING NE INTO LOWER E TX AND MUCH OF NORTHCENTRAL LA OVERNIGHT. CONVECTION BLOSSOMING AROUND AROUND MCV CENTERED BETWEEN VCT AND ATT...BUT NONE OF THE PROGS HAVE THIS CENTER INITIALIZED VERY WELL...MOST ARE TOO FAR EAST AND TOO FAST. IN ANY CASE...MCV SHOULD BE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL CONVECTION SPREADING INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT. LAPS ANALYSIS INDICATES LOWER E TX HAS DESTABILIZED SOME WITH A FEW BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS...THUS IT IS POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN COULD SPREAD INTO THIS AREA BEFORE CONVECTION BEGINS TO WEAKEN WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN FOR THE SOUTHERN/EASTERN ZONES TONIGHT/THURSDAY MORNING...BUT GIVEN VERY LIGHT/SPORATIC NATURE OF THE RAIN WHICH FELL TODAY...AND RADAR STP ESTIMATES OF A HALF TO ONE INCH COMMON IN THE LAST 36 HOURS...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS...WILL FORGO A FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHCENTRAL LA TONIGHT. FEEL THAT DESPITE LOWERING FFG VALUES...AND ONLY A 20 KT OR SO LLJ SETTING UP TONIGHT...WITH NO SURFACE FOCUS...AS THE FRONT WILL BEGIN TO LIFT NORTH AND WASH OUT OVERNIGHT/THURSDAY MORNING...PROLONGED HEAVY RAINFALL SHOULD BE ISOLATED IN NATURE...THUS ANY FLOODING PROBLEMS WHICH MAY DEVELOP SHOULD BE ISOLATED AS WELL. SHEAR AXIS MAY ACTUALLY BEGIN TO LIFT BACK NORTH OVERNIGHT AS WELL...BEFORE SLOWLY SHIFTING EAST ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY. WILL CARRY LOW CHANCE POPS IN FOR THE EAST THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH THE DEPARTING SHEAR AXIS...BUT NEXT SHORTWAVE ADVANCES SE ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY OF N TX THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AND INTO THE REGION OVERNIGHT. THIS SYSTEM WILL THEN REMAIN CUTOFF OVER TX...ALLOWING SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE FEED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THUS... SLIGHT CHANCE POPS WILL REMAIN ELSEWHERE AS PROGS GENERATING SOME LIGHT QPF. DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA SOUTH OF THE TROUGH AXIS FRIDAY...THUS CHANCE POPS WILL REMAIN ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR. NEXT FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO SAG SOUTH INTO THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY...AND STALLS SOMEWHERE OVER S AR/N LA...NE TX. THUS...ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA SATURDAY...AS ADDITIONAL ENERGY LIFTS NE. GFS RATHER BULLISH DUE TO FEEDBACK ISSUES SATURDAY...HOWEVER CAN NOT IGNORE. LEFTOVER SHEAR AXIS TO REMAIN IN PLACE THEREAFTER...WITH CHANCE POPS CONTINUING THROUGH MUCH OF THE EXTENDED. UPPER AIR PATTERN MAY BEGIN TO CHANGE BY MIDWEEK AS CENTRAL CANADIAN VORTEX SHIFTS EAST AND RIDGE BUILDS EAST OVER MUCH OF THE COUNTRY. PRELIMS ARE NEXT... 15 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 71 85 70 88 / 40 40 20 30 MLU 70 82 70 86 / 60 60 30 30 TXK 70 86 70 88 / 10 10 20 20 TYR 70 87 70 89 / 20 10 20 30 LFK 71 85 71 87 / 60 50 20 40 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-241100- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE- CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD- HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION- MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA- PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX- SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR- WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD- 1200 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TRACKING NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND INTO LOWER EAST TEXAS AND NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA...THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP NEAR THESE DISTURBANCES...AND ALSO NEAR A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. PROLONGED PERIODS OF RAIN...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE HEAVY... WILL CONTINUE DEVELOPING AND MOVING REPEATEDLY OVER THESE SAME AREAS...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES POSSIBLE...BUT MAINLY CONCENTRATED OVER NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL COULD CAUSE SOME FLOODING THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...AS SOILS ACROSS THE AREA ARE ALREADY BECOMING SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... THE SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL SLOWLY SHIFT EAST INTO NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA THURSDAY...ALLOWING THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT TO GRADUALLY SHIFT EAST OUT OF THE AREA THURSDAY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR IN NORTHERN LOUISIANA. ANOTHER WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY AND STALL...ALLOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO REMAINED FOCUSED ON THE AREA. RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...AS THE FRONT AND ASSOCIATED WEAK DISTURBANCES LINGER. WITH GROUNDS ALREADY BECOMING SATURATED...THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD HAVE A FLOODING POTENTIAL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:17 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
High water across southeast Shreveport near Youree and Southfield. Water was as high as the headlights to some automobiles.
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