Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 5, 1986, 8:45 PM CST for Natchitoches Parish, Winn Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 1986, 8:45 PM CST (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 1986, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Natchitoches Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.