A disturbance aloft moved south towards the Interstate 20 corridor of Northeast Texas during the predawn hours and morning hours of September 2nd. These storms were prolific rainfall producers with hourly rainfall rates approaching three inches per hour.
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The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
A disturbance aloft moved south towards the Interstate 20 corridor of Northeast Texas during the predawn hours and morning hours of September 2nd. These storms were prolific rainfall producers with hourly rainfall rates approaching three inches per hour. Some of these storms began to train across Gregg County Texas producing isolated reports of flash flooding in the town of Longview, Texas.
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 2, 6:12 AM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 712 AM CDT MON SEP 2 2013 .DISCUSSION... TSTM ACTIVITY HAS CLUSTERED OVER PORTIONS OF NE TX...NORTH OF I-20. MEANWHILE...THIS INITIAL WAVE OF CONVECTION IS SHIFTING SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. AS THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS CONVECTION IS SHIFTING FURTHER SOUTH...HAVE ADJUSTED REMAINDER OF MORNING POPS TO ACCOUNT FOR THESE TRENDS. HOWEVER...MADE NO CHANGES TO AFTN FCST AT THIS TIME./VII/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 96 74 95 74 96 / 30 20 20 10 10 MLU 96 72 93 71 95 / 30 20 30 20 10 DEQ 94 70 95 68 95 / 30 20 10 10 10 TXK 94 74 95 71 94 / 40 20 10 10 10 ELD 94 71 94 68 94 / 30 20 20 10 10 TYR 97 74 98 74 97 / 50 20 10 10 10 GGG 96 72 96 72 97 / 50 20 10 10 10 LFK 98 74 97 74 97 / 20 30 20 10 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 550 AM CDT MON SEP 2 2013 LAZ017>022-TXZ152-153-165>167-031100- SABINE LA-NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-NACOGDOCHES- SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 550 AM CDT MON SEP 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND EAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE AREA. ALTHOUGH STRONG GUSTY WINDS MAY OCCUR WITH A FEW STORMS...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY POSSIBLY CONTINUE OVERNIGHT...AND REDEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON ON TUESDAY. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS MAY OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED. ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097- 108>112-124>126-136>138-149>151-031100- 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-MCCURTAIN- BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH- GREGG-HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA- 550 AM CDT MON SEP 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR LATER THIS MORNING...AND APPROACH THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR BY LATE TODAY. WITH SURFACE TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE 90S THIS AFTERNOON... AND DEEPENING MOISTURE IN THE MID LEVELS...ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE A GOOD POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS. BRIEF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE VERY BRIEF AND ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED. VII
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:00 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in two cars being stranded at the intersection of High Street and Common Street. The intersection of Nelson and Green Streets was also closed due to high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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