A deep upper level low pressure system moved across northern Mexico before slowly ejecting out into the Texas Hill Country and the Southern Plains. This upper level disturbance was able to tap Pacific and Gulf of Mexico moisture as a warm front oriented west to east along the Gulf coast moved northward during the day on the 9th.
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The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
A deep upper level low pressure system moved across northern Mexico before slowly ejecting out into the Texas Hill Country and the Southern Plains. This upper level disturbance was able to tap Pacific and Gulf of Mexico moisture as a warm front oriented west to east along the Gulf coast moved northward during the day on the 9th. Heavy rain trained across the same general areas in Winn Parish producing widespread 4 to 6 inch rainfall amounts the parish.
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 Jan 9, 11:16 PM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1116 PM CST WED JAN 9 2013
.DISCUSSION...
PATCHY FOG DEVELOPING ACROSS MANY LOCATIONS IN EAST TEXAS WHERE
AIRMASS HAS BECOME SATURATED. WENT AHEAD AND UPDATED THE FORECAST
TO INCLUDE PATCHY DRIZZLE AND PATCHY FOG ACROSS ALL AREAS
CURRENTLY OUTSIDE OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FLOOD WATCH. /05/
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV 59 71 48 71 57 / 100 50 10 0 30
MLU 60 70 50 71 57 / 100 100 20 0 30
DEQ 55 68 41 68 50 / 50 50 10 0 20
TXK 54 69 47 69 55 / 50 50 10 0 20
ELD 58 70 47 70 55 / 100 100 20 0 30
TYR 57 66 47 72 58 / 50 20 10 0 20
GGG 57 69 46 71 57 / 50 30 10 0 20
LFK 63 71 46 72 61 / 100 30 10 0 30
&&
.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 AM CST THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: ARZ072-073.
LA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 AM CST THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022.
OK...NONE.
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 AM CST THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: TXZ152-153-165>167.
&&
05/07HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1156 AM CST WED JAN 9 2013 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-101200- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN- UNION LA-DE SOTO-RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA- NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE- FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG- HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA- SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 1156 AM CST WED JAN 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST ACROSS MUCH OF THE FOUR STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ADDITIONAL AREAS OF HEAVIER RAIN GRADUALLY SPREADING NORTH AND EAST INTO EAST TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THIS WILL OCCUR AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER NORTHERN MEXICO BEGINS TO SLOWLY DRIFT NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT FOCUSING ON EAST TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS...WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...BEFORE THE RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST. ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IS EXPECTED. GIVEN THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS...ANY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THAT MOVES REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST THURSDAY. HOWEVER...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA AS THE PARENT STORM SYSTEM BEGINS TO LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM ANY STRONG STORMS WOULD BE MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. A COLD FRONT WILL DRIFT SOUTHEAST INTO THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...AND FOCUS ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH LATE SUNDAY. EVEN AS THE FRONT EXITS THE REGION BY EARLY MONDAY...ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE AREA THROUGH MIDWEEK...WHICH COULD RESULT IN ANOTHER FLASH FLOOD THREAT OVER EXTREME EASTERN TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR RAINFALL TOTALS AND ANY FLOODING REPORTS. 15
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A car was stalled out in high water on Thomas Mill Road just north of Winnfield, Louisiana.
A stalled car was removed from high water on Garner Road near U.S. Hwy. 84 west of Winnfield, Louisiana.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, January 2013
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 419169, 419170.