Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
Versions:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
585 FXUS64 KSHV 241220 AFDSHV Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Shreveport LA 620 AM CST Mon Nov 24 2025 ...New AVIATION... .KEY MESSAGES... Issued at 1002 PM CST Sun Nov 23 2025 - The "potential" is there for a severe weather outbreak later today through this evening across at least the southern 2/3rds of the Four State Region. - In addition to the severe weather threat, excessive, heavy rainfall will also be possible across portions of the Four State Region as well. - Colder air still poised to arrive Wednesday through Thanksgiving Day but temperatures begin to moderate by the weekend along with our next rain chances. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 1002 PM CST Sun Nov 23 2025 Low level moisture return is currently underway across the Four State Region in advance of vigorous upper level trough that is currently ejecting out into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region of the Country. Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms are lining up across the Tx Hill Country into the Upper Red River Valley of Central and SW OK and it`s this upper level forcing in advance of the filling, ejecting upper trough that will move our way during the day today bringing with it scattered to numerous thunderstorms, some of which will could produce excessive, heavy rainfall and severe weather. Made the decision this evening to issue a Flood Watch, valid from 6am Monday through midnight Monday Night/Tuesday Morning for the northern third of NE TX, McCurtain County in SE OK as well as most of SW AR. This is due in part to some new high res guidance coming in which suggests more of this region seeing near 3 inches storm totals or slightly higher compared to what progs were indicating this time last night. The area of the Flood Watch was based on where heavier rainfall was observed late last week with our last upper level trough. 1-3 inches of additional rainfall with this trough through Monday Night could have more impacts due to wetter soils across the Flood Watch area compared to pockets of 1-3 inch rainfall totals near and especially south of the I-20 Corridor where much less to no rain has fallen through the month of November. Not to be forgotten and what will likely be a more impactful outcome from this trough will be the threat for severe thunderstorms this afternoon through this evening. Thunderstorms this morning overspreading NE TX, SE OK and SW AR will likely be elevated and could pose a large hail threat but the window will open for more in the way of surface based storms producing large hail, damaging wind gusts and tornadoes with the aid of daytime and afternoon heating along and south of a returning warm front. This warm front will be delegated to SE TX and SW LA near sunrise in the morning with this feature forecast to surge northward into our region by afternoon in the form of 60-65 degree dewpoints as far north as the I-20 Corridor into NE TX and N LA and maybe S AR by early evening. Just how far north this boundary moves will be pivotal to the extent of the warm sector for tornado development because it appears there will be plenty of low level directional and bulk shear for discrete supercell thunderstorms that could produce tornadoes (some strong) along a corridor from Deep East Texas into Northern Louisiana. Any discrete supercell thunderstorms will eventually be overtaken by a broken line of convection sweeping eastward out of NE TX that too could pose a brief, weaker tornado threat but more likely a wind threat in association with a pre-frontal trough. It looks like this line of convection should move east of Deep East Texas near or shortly before midnight, and east of the remainder of NE TX, SE OK, SW AR and extreme NW LA before midnight with a severe weather threat likely continuing for portions of Central and NE LA between midnight and 3am. Cold front in the wake of this convection still poised to enter our region late Tue Night and should have pushed through our entire region early Wednesday. Noticeable temperature drop from Tue to Wed with highs on Wed ranging from the mid 50s to mid 60s and we are still looking at the possibility of freezing temperatures across our northern and northeastern zones Wed Night and Thu Night before we begin to see some airmass recovery by Friday and into next weekend with our next rain chances returning. 13 && .AVIATION... (12Z TAFS) Issued at 542 AM CST Mon Nov 24 2025 For the ArkLaTex terminals, Pacific upper low moving over KN/OK this am with a line of heavy elevated TS rolling down the Red River at 40KTs, extending S to KTRL. KDAL gusted to 34KT earlier and more for us along with some pea to quarter sized hail. All sites will see TS activity shift across our area with gusty wind and restrictions briefly. The upper low will move by tonight sweeping convection eastward. The cold front will shift winds to NW mid to late Tuesday am. /24/ && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Issued at 1002 PM CST Sun Nov 23 2025 Spotter activation will be needed Monday and Monday Night due to the threat of severe weather and heavy rainfall. 13 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 74 60 74 49 / 90 90 10 0 MLU 77 64 76 51 / 70 90 30 10 DEQ 61 49 67 38 / 100 50 0 0 TXK 66 56 69 44 / 100 80 0 0 ELD 67 56 70 43 / 90 90 10 0 TYR 73 54 70 45 / 90 60 0 0 GGG 75 55 71 44 / 90 80 0 0 LFK 80 59 77 48 / 90 90 10 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...Flood Watch through this evening for ARZ050-051-059>061-070-071. LA...None. OK...Flood Watch through this evening for OKZ077. TX...Flood Watch through this evening for TXZ096-097-108>112. && $$ DISCUSSION...13 AVIATION...24