Major Hurricane Harvey made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor Texas during the late evening hours on August 25th, and drifted inland into South Texas before becoming stationary on August 26th. The outer bands of Hurricane Harvey spread northwest across much of Southeast Texas and portions of Deep East Texas during the afternoon on the 26th, where damaging winds downed trees in the…
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Major Hurricane Harvey made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor Texas during the late evening hours on August 25th, and drifted inland into South Texas before becoming stationary on August 26th. The outer bands of Hurricane Harvey spread northwest across much of Southeast Texas and portions of Deep East Texas during the afternoon on the 26th, where damaging winds downed trees in the Moffitt community in Northern Angelina County.
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 Aug 26, 3:09 PM CST, 21 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Shreveport LA 409 PM CDT Sat Aug 26 2017 .DISCUSSION... Big news is Harvey was downgraded to a Tropical Storm earlier this afternoon as it sits nearly stationary just northwest of Victoria, Texas. This development means very little in terms of the overall threat still posed by Harvey as it relates to heavy rainfall and isolated tornadoes farther north and east of the center of Harvey. We have already begun to see this occur across our extreme SW sections in deep east Texas. Rainfall amounts haven't been overly impressive just yet with the heaviest totals in Angelina County, and hourly rainfall rates have been easily absorbed thus far so have held off on any flash flood watch headlines for now across our far SW ones. Instead, the bigger threat appears to be quick spin-up tornadoes in some of the heavier rain bands over our deep east TX counties and eastward across Toledo Bend country. Otherwise, the remainder of the region has been relatively quiet today with just some light to occasionally moderate rain extending as far north as the I-30 corridor. Do expect much of this activity to gradually diminish overnight while showers and isolated thunderstorms will likely persist farther south closer to the center of TS Harvey. Thus, pops have been tapered accordingly with a significant spread from north to south. Little change in the forecast as we shift into the Sunday and the upcoming work week as Harvey will move very little over the next several days. This effectively keeps pops in the forecast each day with temperatures remaining in the 80s for highs as cloud cover will remain abundant. For the remainder of the extended period through mid to late week, continue to favor the ECMWF solution which indicates the remnants of Harvey finally lifting northward toward our region by late Wednesday into Thursday next week. Our rainfall amounts will be increasing with this scenario as much of area still looks to receive 3-6 inches of total event rainfall with isolated higher amounts across deep east Texas closer to 8 inches possible. With the slow northward progression indicated by the ECMWF, rain chances will linger through the end of next week and possibly into next weekend. /19/ && PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 1229 PM CDT Sat Aug 26 2017/ AVIATION... Flying conditions will continue to detiorate through the TAF period as our terminals begin to experience the outer feeder bands of what will become the remnants of Hurricane Harvey still churning across South Central Texas. Very light returns falling out of ceilings near 10kft or higher are occurring along and north of the I-20 corridor attm but the precip is not resulting in any vsby restrictions. This will likely be the continued case until we see stronger feeder bands move up this way from the south and east per the LFK terminal's current conditions with MVFR restrictions noted with VCTS and 3-5sm vsby restrictions. So for this package, have shown a gradual lowering of ceilings but still keeping with only VCSH through most of the TAF period, except of course at the LFK terminal. Moving north of LFK at the TYR/GGG terminals, introduced prevailing showers at 27/12z timeframe with ceilings likely becoming MVFR at those terminal locations as well beyond the 27/12z timeframe. Winds will vary from east to northeast near 10kts with some stronger gusts possible at the LFK terminal in association with convection. 13 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 74 81 70 83 / 30 50 40 50 MLU 73 84 70 83 / 30 40 30 40 DEQ 71 87 68 87 / 20 20 20 20 TXK 71 85 69 86 / 20 30 20 20 ELD 72 85 69 85 / 20 20 20 30 TYR 73 79 69 82 / 50 60 50 50 GGG 73 79 69 82 / 50 60 50 50 LFK 74 77 71 78 / 90 80 60 70 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None. && 19/13
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Shreveport LA 416 PM CDT Sat Aug 26 2017 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-018>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-150-151-272130- Sevier-Howard-Little River-Hempstead-Nevada-Miller-Lafayette- Columbia-Union-Caddo-Bossier-Webster-Claiborne-Lincoln-De Soto- Red River-Bienville-Jackson-Ouachita-Natchitoches-Winn-Grant- Caldwell-La Salle-McCurtain-Bowie-Franklin-Titus-Camp-Morris-Cass- Wood-Upshur-Marion-Smith-Gregg-Harrison-Rusk-Panola- 416 PM CDT Sat Aug 26 2017 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...Tonight... Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible today across the four region area due to the effects of Tropical Storm Harvey still located well to our south. Daytime heating will be limited due to extensive cloud cover, but a few stronger bands of heavy rainfall could materialize during the afternoon. Otherwise, no hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday... The track of Harvey is still somewhat uncertain through next week, but rainfall amounts are expected to increase across our region by the middle and latter part of the week as Harvey finally begins to shift farther north and east. Additional rainfall totals next week of three to six inches with isolated higher amounts close to eight inches are possible across much of east Texas and north Louisiana with enhanced sea breeze bands through mid to late week. This may pose a flash flooding potential, but the uncertainty with Harvey's eventual track makes this threat still somewhat unclear at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Activation of emergency management personnel...amateur radio operators and storm spotters will not be needed through tonight. LAZ017-TXZ149-152-153-165>167-272130- Sabine-Cherokee-Nacogdoches-Shelby-Angelina-San Augustine- 416 PM CDT Sat Aug 26 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northwest Louisiana, east Texas and northeast Texas. .DAY ONE...Tonight... Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible today across the four region area due to the effects of Tropical Storm Harvey still located well to our south. Daytime heating will be limited due to extensive cloud cover, but a few stronger bands of heavy rainfall could materialize during the afternoon. The outermost bands could also present a weak tornadic potential through the evening hours. Otherwise, no hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday... The track of Harvey is still somewhat uncertain through next week, but rainfall amounts are expected to increase across our region by the middle and latter part of the week as Harvey finally begins to shift farther north and east. Additional rainfall totals next week of three to six inches with isolated higher amounts close to eight inches are possible across much of east Texas and north Louisiana with enhanced sea breeze bands through mid to late week. This may pose a flash flooding potential, but the uncertainty with Harvey's eventual track makes this threat still somewhat unclear at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Activation of emergency management personnel...amateur radio operators and storm spotters should not be needed through tonight. 19
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and other debris were blown down in the Moffitt community.
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