1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 May 12, 2:54 AM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 354 AM CDT WED MAY 12 2004 .DISCUSSION... TO FOLLOW SHORTLY && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 84 69 83 67 / 50 10 50 40 MLU 81 68 82 67 / 80 30 50 30 TXK 83 69 82 66 / 50 10 50 50 TYR 85 70 83 68 / 30 10 50 50 LFK 85 69 84 70 / 50 10 50 40 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 600 AM CDT WED MAY 12 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>167-121700- 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- 600 AM CDT WED MAY 12 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OVER THE FOUR STATE REGION WILL PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MAINLY THE EAST SECTIONS ...GENERALLY EAST OF A TEXARKANA TO SHREVEPORT LINE. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN UNITED STATES INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS SYSTEM WILL SEND A COLD FRONT INTO THE FOUR STATE REGION LATE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...AND TO NEAR THE SOUTHERN EDGES BY LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. A RICH SUPPLY OF GULF MOISTURE...ENERGY FROM DISTURBANCES MOVING OVER THE AREA AND IN THE SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WITH THE SYSTEM... ALONG WITH FRONTAL FORCING WILL PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...AND A FEW WILL BECOME SEVERE PRODUCING STRONG AND AT TIMES DAMAGING WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
High water at the intersection of Flagon and Neal Rds in the Prospect community.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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