An upper level trough of low pressure remained anchored across north central Texas during the later half of June and continued into July. This allowed for copious amount of moisture to stream northward from the Gulf of Mexico.
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The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
An upper level trough of low pressure remained anchored across north central Texas during the later half of June and continued into July. This allowed for copious amount of moisture to stream northward from the Gulf of Mexico. This moisture...combined with daytime heating...resulted in showers and thunderstorms across portions of northeast Texas...some of which produce flooding rainfall.
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 3, 2:37 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 337 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 .DISCUSSION... WILL CONTINUE WITH PERSISTENCE...AT LEAST THROUGH THURSDAY. UPPER LOW NOW APPEARS TO BE CENTERED OVER THE CONCHO VALLEY AND CONTINUES TO DIG SOUTHWEST IN RESPONSE TO BUILDING HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHWEST U.S. SOME DISAGREEMENT IN MODELS ON WHERE THE CIRCULATION WILL END UP...BUT GFS PLACES IT NORTHERN MEXICO NEAR DEL RIO BY 12Z FRIDAY. THIS POSITION COMBINED WITH A TROF MOVING ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY REGION...SHOULD ACT TO CHANGE SURFACE WINDS TO NORTHEAST AND LOW LEVEL WINDS THROUGH 80H TO MORE WESTERLY...CUTTING OFF THE MOISTURE TAP TO THE GULF. THUS THE MOIST AIRMASS OVER THE REGION SHOULD DRY SLIGHTLY...ENOUGH TO END THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND RESULT IN MORE SCATTERED CONVECTION...AT LEAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AFTER THE WEEKEND...ALL BETS ARE OFF AS GFS AGAINS REDEVELOPS A CUTOFF LOW OVER NORTH TEXAS. BY TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK LOW LEVEL WINDS HAVE RETAPPED THE ENDLESS MOISTURE SUPPLY FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. WILL BEGIN AN UPWARD TREND ON POPS ONCE AGAIN...BUT ONLY SLIGHTLY AT THIS POINT...AS CONFIDENCE IN GFS IS RATHER LOW WITH THIS RUN. FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS EVENING WILL BE CANCELED. AFTER 6 PM... THE CURRENT CONVECTION WILL BE ON THE DECREASE. ANY FLOODING CAN BE HANDLED BY STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. WITHOUT A FOCUS FOR PROLONGED HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOW QPF VALUES...CAN NOT JUSTIFY A WATCH FOR WEDNESDAY. LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER REPEAT OF TODAY. FOR TEMPS...WILL BEGIN A WARMING TREND LATER HALF OF WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND WITH HIGHS CLOSER TO SEASONAL NORMALS. && .AVIATION... SCATTERED CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION...BUT VFR CIGS/VSBYS MAY DROP TO MVFR IN/NEAR CONVECTION...WITH LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS TO 30 KTS POSSIBLE. CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BETWEEN 2-5Z...WITH AC/CIRROFORM CONVECTIVE DEBRIS LINGERING OVERNIGHT. SOME TERMINALS THAT SEE RAIN THIS AFTERNOON MAY DEVELOP LIFR CIGS OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHERE THE MID/HIGH CIGS THIN. COULD ALSO SEE MVFR CIGS DEVELOP OVER CNTRL/SE TX OVERNIGHT AS NEW ROUND OF CONVECTION DEVELOPS...WITH THESE LOWER CIGS LIFTING N INTO E TX AFTER 9Z. OTHERWISE...ANY LIFR/MVFR CIGS THAT DEVELOP SHOULD LIFT TO VFR BY MID/LATE MORNING WEDNESDAY...WITH SCATTERED CONVECTION DEVELOPING AGAIN OVER E TX/CNTRL LA...AND AFFECTING THE E TX TERMINALS/SHV BY MIDDAY/EARLY AFTERNOON. /15/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 74 89 74 89 / 60 70 30 50 MLU 72 87 72 87 / 60 60 30 50 DEQ 71 86 71 86 / 60 60 30 50 TXK 72 86 72 86 / 60 60 40 50 ELD 72 87 72 87 / 60 60 30 50 TYR 73 86 73 86 / 60 70 40 50 GGG 74 88 74 88 / 60 70 40 50 LFK 74 88 73 88 / 60 70 40 50 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 14/15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 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>167-041100- 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 TUE JUL 3 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. DUE TO AN UNSTABLE AND VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE... RAINFALL WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES. RAINFALL RATES UP TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. ALSO...A FEW STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH AND FREQUENT AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS WHICH HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST WEEK OR SO...WHICH INCLUDE MOST OF EAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND NORTH LOUISIANA HAVE A POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THESE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WORKWEEK...AND THE MORE INTENSE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY FOR SUPPORT IN THE EVENT OF FLASH FLOODING.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:40 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Up to three feet of water was reported at the intersection of Bonner and Ferguson Streets. A car was stalled with occupants inside needing police assistance. County road 2301 was also washed out due to excessive heavy rainfall and flash flooding.
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