Areas of moderate to heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms developed over portions of Northeast Texas during the late morning hours of the 9th, ahead of weak cold front and associated series of upper level disturbances translating east across North Texas/Southern Arkansas. The heavier rain bands persisted over the same areas of Smith and Southern Wood counties through early afternoon, with…
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Areas of moderate to heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms developed over portions of Northeast Texas during the late morning hours of the 9th, ahead of weak cold front and associated series of upper level disturbances translating east across North Texas/Southern Arkansas. The heavier rain bands persisted over the same areas of Smith and Southern Wood counties through early afternoon, with additional rainfall amounts of two to four inches falling over already saturated grounds, where rainfall amounts of two to three inches fell during the evening hours of the 8th. This excessive rainfall resulted in numerous roads being flooded across Smith County. From 8pm on the 8th, through 2 pm on the 9th, 5.84 inches of rain fell at Tyler Pounds Field Airport.
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 Sep 9, 9:31 AM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1031 AM CDT TUE SEP 9 2008 .DISCUSSION... WEAK COLD FRONT CURRENTLY LOCATED ROUGHLY ALONG AN EL DORADO...TO LONG VIEW...TO WACO LINE...WILL CONTINUE TO SINK SWD THROUGH THE FOUR STATE REGION TODAY. SCT CONVECTION IS ONGOING ALONG THE FRONT FROM ABOUT HOPE TO TYLER...AND POINTS NORTH. CONVECTION SHOULD CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE E AND N AS THE DAY PROGRESSES...HENCE HIGHER POPS OVER THE NRN AND ERN SECTIONS OF THE REGION. LOWERED POPS IN THE S TO CHANCE...AS IT APPEARS THAT CONVECTION WILL LIKELY BE DIURNALLY DRIVEN AND MORE ISOLATED IN NATURE. ALSO LOWERED TEMPS JUST A HAIR ALONG THE FRONT...AS CLOUDS WILL LIKELY LINGER THROUGHOUT THE PEAK HEATING HOURS. OTHERWISE...CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD...AND WILL ADDRESS THE EXTENDED IN THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE. && .AVIATION... BANDS OF SHRA AND EMBEDDED CONVECTION CONTINUES ACROSS NE TX N OF I-20...AS WELL AS SW AR THIS MORNING...ALONG A W-E CONVERGENCE BNDRY AROUND 5KFT...WHICH IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY WEAKEN THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...AREAS OF SHRA WITH REDUCED IFR/LOW MVFR CIGS WILL PERSIST/SPREAD E INTO SW AR BY EARLY AFTERNOON...THUS WILL MAINTAIN PREVAILING SHRA IN THE TXK/ELD AND POSSIBLY TYR/GGG TAFS AT THE 18Z ISSUANCE. MEANWHILE...A DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BNDRY MAY SET UP OVER DEEP E TX/NCNTRL LA S OF I-20 THIS AFTERNOON...GIVEN CONSIDERABLE BREAKS IN THE CLOUD COVER. THUS...SCT CONVECTION MAY EVENTUALLY FIRE DURING AFTERNOON HEATING ACROSS DEEP E TX/NCNTRL LA...WITH THE LFK/SHV/MLU TERMINALS POSSIBLY SEEING MORE PERIODIC CONVECTION DURING THE AFTERNOON. BELIEVE THE AREAS OF RAIN/SCT CONVECTION WILL DIMINISH BY LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING...WITH EXTENSIVE CONVECTIVE DEBRIS LINGERING AREAWIDE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE TAF PERIOD. MEANWHILE...A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY SEEP SWD INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH WINDS BECMG NE AROUND 5KTS IN WAKE OF THE FROPA. MAIN CONCERN OVERNIGHT WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR FG DEVELOPMENT/LIFR CIGS WHERE BREAKS IN THE CLOUD COVER OCCURS. THUS...MAY HIT THE FG A LITTLE HARDER IN THE 18Z TAF ISSUANCE...WITH LATER FORECASTS ADDRESSING THIS CONCERN AS THIS WEATHER SYSTEM CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. /15/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 84 71 88 72 92 / 70 30 30 20 30 MLU 86 70 90 71 91 / 50 30 30 20 50 DEQ 79 67 85 69 90 / 70 20 30 20 40 TXK 82 69 86 71 91 / 70 30 30 20 30 ELD 83 68 86 69 91 / 70 30 30 20 40 TYR 84 70 88 73 93 / 70 20 30 20 20 GGG 84 70 89 72 93 / 70 20 30 20 20 LFK 89 71 91 73 92 / 30 20 20 20 30 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 12/15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 610 AM CDT TUE SEP 9 2008 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-091700- 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- 610 AM CDT TUE SEP 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA... SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST AND DEEP EAST TEXAS...AND FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ARE EXPECTED TODAY...AS A COOL FRONT EDGES INTO THE FOUR STATE AREA. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS DEVELOPING IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT AND MAY ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO ORGANIZE INTO CLUSTERS...ESPECIALLY DURING THIS AFTERNOON HEATING...WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS MOST UNSTABLE. IF AND WHEN DEVELOPED...THESE CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. OVERNIGHT...SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BECOME ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE WEAKENING COOL FRONT WHICH WILL BECOME STATIONARY OVER DEEP EAST TEXAS AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THIS FRONT WILL WASH OUT AND EVEN LIFT BACK TO THE NORTH ALONG I-20 DURING MID TO LATE WEEK. TOWARD THE WEEKEND...ALL EYES WILL BE ON HURRICANE IKE...WHICH WILL CONTINUE WESTWARD ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO DURING MIDWEEK. THE OFFICIAL TRACK FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER HAS PUSHED THE STORM PATH FARTHER SOUTH...ALONG THE SOUTH TEXAS COASTAL BEND...WITH LANDFALL EARLY ON SATURDAY. DEPENDING ON IKES STRENGTH...WE COULD SEE A STRONG SEA BREEZE AFFECT OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS ON SATURDAY. THEN ON SUNDAY AND INTO MONDAY ANOTHER...STRONGER COLD FRONT WILL TAKE AIM ON THE FOUR STATE AREA...WITH MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. IN FACT...IF IKE SHOULD HAPPEN TO CURVE TO THE NORTHWARD ALONG THIS COLD FRONT...THEN RAINFALL COULD BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES IN THE FOUR STATE AREA DURING SUNDAY. STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT...CONCERNING THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS HURRICANE...AS IT TRACKS ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO LATE THIS WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER...HAM RADIO OPERATOR...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. 24
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:45 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous reports of road closures across the northern and southern portions of Smith County.
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