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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Shreveport, LA

November 19, 1988Caddo Parish, Louisiana; Panola County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 19, 1988, 2:46 PM CST for Caddo Parish, Louisiana; Panola County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 19, 1988, 2:46 PM CST (20:46 UTC)
Expired: Nov 19, 1988, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Caddo Parish, LA, Panola County, TX

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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 8.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 192047
TORSHV
ARC057-061-LAC015-017-TXC365-192145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
246 PM CST SAT NOV 19 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES AND PARISHES...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
          ...HEMPSTEAD...HOWARD
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
          ...BOSSIER...CADDO
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
          ...PANOLA
 
AT 245 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT
SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOPE ARKANSAS
AND ANOTHER JUST EAST OF CARTHAGE TEXAS.
 
MOVEMENT WASNORTHEAST NEAR 45 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 19, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto	69 min
Nov 19, 2:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier	59 min
Nov 19, 3:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Webster	57 min
Nov 19, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	48 min
Nov 19, 3:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne	57 min
Nov 19, 3:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Natchitoches, Red River	62 min
Nov 19, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	66 min
Nov 19, 4:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln	42 min
Nov 19, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	61 min
Nov 19, 5:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson, Ouachita	69 min
Nov 19, 5:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Morehouse	69 min
Nov 19, 5:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Winn	63 min
Nov 19, 12:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	60 min
Nov 19, 12:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg	67 min
Nov 19, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	61 min
Nov 19, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	61 min
Nov 19, 1:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion	87 min
Nov 19, 1:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison	87 min
Nov 19, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk, Shelby	85 min
Nov 19, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison	85 min
Nov 19, 3:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison	66 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Louisiana, 1988 Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1988 Every tornado warning in 1988 Tornadoes in 1988

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.