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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Shreveport, LA

November 19, 1988Madison Parish, Louisiana

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1988-11-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1353 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1988-11-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 19, 6:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVFranklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas96 min
Nov 19, 6:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWest Carroll96 min
Nov 19, 7:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVEast Carroll66 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.