Excessive heavy rainfall in Smith County earlier in the week resulted in high water levels on Lake Tyler.
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Excessive heavy rainfall in Smith County earlier in the week resulted in high water levels on Lake Tyler.
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 7, 9:07 AM CST, 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1007 AM CDT SAT JUL 7 2007 .DISCUSSION... BEAUTIFUL DAY ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION DESPITE VERY HIGH RIVER AND LAKE LEVELS. UPPER TROUGH AXIS CONTINUES TO SPIN ACROSS SE AR AND NE LA AND WILL SERVE TO FOCUS SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS OUR EASTERN SECTIONS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. FURTHER SOUTH AND WEST...SHEAR AXIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE TROUGH TO OUR EAST REMAINS STRETCHED OUT WEST TO EAST ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN ZONES. DESPITE NW LOW LEVEL WINDS ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN ZONES... THERE MAY BE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG AN 850MB THETAE AXIS JUST SOUTH OF OUR REGION TO GENERATE SOME SCATTERED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ELSEWHERE...WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES STILL PRETTY HIGH...THINK WE COULD SEE SOME ISOLATED ACTIVITY FURTHER NORTH AND WEST ACROSS NE TX/SE OK/SW AR AND THUS WILL LET POP FCST RIDE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. CLOUD COVER MAY BE HARD TO BREAK ACROSS OUR EXTREME EAST ZONES IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE TROUGH BUT OTHER THAN THAT...TEMPS ARE IN GOOD SHAPE. NO CHANGES NECESSARY AT THIS TIME. 13 && .AVIATION... CLOUDS STILL LINGER IN THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA OVER THE MLU AND ELD TERMINALS...AS WRAP AROUND MOISTURE TRAILS A SURFACE LOW CENTERED AT THE THREE STATE COORDINATE OF THE ARKLAMISS. THIS FEATURE IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ITS PROGRESSION EAST...ALLOWING CLOUD CONDITIONS TO SCATTER AT MLU AND ELD DURING THE AFTERNOON. CURRENT IFR CONDITIONS AT MLU SHOULD BECOME VFR...BY NOON AS CEILINGS SHOULD LIFT WITH LINGERING CLOUDS. AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR TWO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT COMPLETELY...AS BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE WILL BE DECENT ENOUGH TO GENERATE SOME ACTIVITY ON THE BACK SIDE OF THIS LOW. VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL AT OTHER ARKLATEX TERMINALS AROUND THE AREA. /11/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 88 70 92 73 / 30 20 30 20 MLU 86 69 92 72 / 40 20 30 20 DEQ 89 69 91 70 / 20 10 20 20 TXK 89 70 92 72 / 20 10 20 20 ELD 88 70 92 71 / 30 20 20 20 TYR 89 71 90 73 / 20 10 30 20 GGG 88 71 91 72 / 20 10 30 20 LFK 88 71 90 73 / 40 20 30 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 13/11
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 611 AM CDT SAT JUL 7 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>167-071700- 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- 611 AM CDT SAT JUL 7 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOONS AND EARLY EVENINGS DURING THE WORK WEEK. RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. 06
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Lake Tyler rose to a stage of 377.7 feet which was just a few inches short of its all time record crest. With the lake at this stage...the lake had to be closed to boating traffic due to the threat of boat wake damaging local camp homes along the lake.
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