Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 19, 1988, 7:47 PM CST for Madison Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 19, 1988, 7:47 PM CST (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 19, 1988, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 1353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas | 96 min |
| Nov 19, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | West Carroll | 96 min |
| Nov 19, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | East Carroll | 66 min |
Nearby
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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.