The Flood Warning continues for the Cypress bayou at Wallace Lake. * Until further notice... or until the warning is cancelled. * At 11:00 PM Thursday the stage was 155.7 feet. * Major flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast. * Flood stage is 151.0 feet. * Forecast... the river will crest near 155.8 feet near 200 am CDT Friday morning.
Record Report
Statement as of 6:48 am EDT on May 15, 2008
record event report National Weather Service Shreveport la 545 am CDT Thursday may 15 2008
... Daily precipitation records set for may 14th for the following locations...
location old record new record years of data ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texarkana AR 1.67 in 1967 2.74 in 2008 records since 1906 El Dorado AR 0.87 in 1917 1.43 in 2008 records since 1930 Longview TX 2.58 in 1908 2.79 in 2008 records since 1902 Shreveport la 1.48 in 1953 4.06 in 2008 records since 1871 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Public Information Statement
Statement as of 10:30 PM CDT on May 15, 2008
... Damage survey has been completed in Jackson Parish Louisiana...
A National Weather Service meteorologist concluded that the damage... which occurred Tuesday night /may 13 2008/ east of Jonesboro Louisiana... was the result of damaging straight-line winds.
Two separate areas of sporadic /mainly tree/ damage were found. The first... was focused along la-147 from Whitman Road to the Walker community. The other damage region was focused along la-4 from Rome Road to la-810 in the Weston community.
In both of these regions... trees were either uprooted or snapped in an orientation consistent with the motion of the severe thunderstorm. Some of the most significant damage... however... was found just outside of the Walker community... where a very large Hardwood tree was uprooted and barely missed a Mobile home. Wind speeds between 90 and 100 miles an hour were estimated to have occurred with this thunderstorm.
Your National Weather Service wishes to thank everyone associated with the damage assessment today.
