Excessive heavy rainfall in the Cypress Lake/Black Bayou lake basin earlier in the week resulted in high water on the lake.
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Excessive heavy rainfall in the Cypress Lake/Black Bayou lake basin earlier in the week resulted in high water on the lake.
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 Jul 8, 2:46 AM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 346 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007 .DISCUSSION... A QUIET NIGHT ACROSS THE CWA WITH WEAK RIDGING ACROSS THE AREA. THE NEXT UPPER LOW OVER OK WILL MEANDER ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AND MONDAY. WILL CARRY JUST CHC POPS IN THE SHORT TERM AS THERE WILL NOT BE A BOUNDARY TO FOCUS PRECIP. TSTMS THAT DO FORM WILL BE MORE DIURNAL IN NATURE. TEMPS TODAY IN THE SOUTHERN THIRD WILL BE TEMPERED DUE TO EXPECTED CLOUDS AND SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA. MONDAY SHOULD SEE MORE OF SEASONAL TEMPS DURING THE AFTN. AS AN UPPER TROF DIGS INTO THE NRN PLAINS AND MIDWEST TOWARD MIDWEEK...A COLD FRONT WILL SINK SWD INTO AR/OK BEFORE STALLING JUST NORTH OF THE CWA. THIS WILL HELP FOCUS PRECIP...MAINLY NORTH OF THE FCST AREA. WILL MAINTAIN CHC POPS THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK WITH AN EMPHASIS ACROSS AR AND OK. WITH UPPER RIDGING TO THE WEST AND AN AMPLIFYING TROF OVER THE GTLKS REGION THIS WEEK...NORTHWEST FLOW SETS UP TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK WHICH COULD BRING A ROUND OF SVR WX. WILL WAIT TO SEE IF THE MODELS CONTINUE THIS TREND. TEMPS SHOULD STAY MORE SEASONAL FROM MIDWEEK ON. MAV TEMPS WERE CLOSE AND ACCEPTED. && .AVIATION... WITH RECENT RAINS OVER THE FOUR STATE REGION AND LIGHT S WINDS EXPECT PATCHY FOG AT THE AIRPORTS UNTIL AROUND 13 TO 14Z. VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS WILL BE 3 TO 5 STATUE MILES WITH SOME SITES POSSIBLY DROPPING TO LOWER VALUES NEAR 1 MILE BRIEFLY. JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS TO NEAR 10 TO 15 KNOTS MAY SPREAD LOWER CLOUDS INTO PARTS OF DEEP EAST TEXAS AND PARTS OF W CENTRAL LA WITH CEILINGS AROUND 1 KFT TO 2 KFT UNTIL AROUND 15Z. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW CONTINUES TO TAKE SHAPE OVER OK...AND DISTURBANCES MOVING AROUND THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE SYSTEM AND ACROSS THE N SIDE OF FLAT RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IN THE GULF...MAY CONTRIBUTE TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR E TX INTO NW AND CENTRAL LA BY THIS AFTERNOON WITH MORE ISOLATED ACTIVITY ACROSS EXTREME NE TX...SE OK...AND SW AR. WILL INCLUDE VICINITY THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN TAFS...AND OMIT FOR N SITES. SURFACE WINDS WILL BE INCREASING TO 5 TO 10 KNOTS AFTER 08/15Z THEN BACK TO 4 TO 7 KNOTS AFTER/AROUND 09/00Z. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 90 72 91 73 / 30 20 30 20 MLU 90 71 91 71 / 30 20 30 20 DEQ 92 68 91 70 / 20 20 30 20 TXK 91 72 91 72 / 20 20 30 20 ELD 91 71 91 70 / 20 20 30 20 TYR 88 73 90 73 / 30 20 30 20 GGG 88 71 91 71 / 30 20 30 20 LFK 87 73 91 72 / 40 20 30 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 02/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 538 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-091100- 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- 538 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING EACH DAY DURING THE WORK WEEK. RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. 02
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Excessive heavy rainfall across Bossier Parish earlier in the week resulted in high water on Cypress Lake/Black Bayou. The lake crested at 181.63 on July 8th. At that stage...the lake had to be closed to boating traffic in order that boat wake would not damage camp houses along the lake.
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