Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 1988, 5:13 PM CST for Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 1988, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 1988, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rusk County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 5:31 PM CST | Hail 1 | Rusk, TX | |
| Apr 1, 6:21 PM CST | Hail 1 | Rusk, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSHV 012314
TORSHV
ARC027-073-TXC401-020015-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
513 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
...COLUMBIA...LAFAYETTE
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
...RUSK
AT 515 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICERADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED
POSSIBLE TORNADOES NEAR MOUNT ENTERPRISE TEXAS AND NORTH OF BENTON
LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 25 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.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH ]OR CULVERT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 1, 1:21 PM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 115 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988 THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH- EAST TEXAS...SQUALL LINE EXPECTED TO FORM AND SPREAD EAST LATER. STRONG AND POSSIBLE SEVERE STORMS WILL DEVELOP AND AFFECT NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA BY MID AFTERNOON AND EASTWARD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE ARKLATEX TONIGHT. AT 115 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA TO NEAR HUGO ACROSS THE RED RIVER TO NEAR SULPHUR SPRINGS TEXAS TO SOUTHWEST OF TYLER TO SOUTHWEST OF PALESTINE TEXAS. INITIALLY THESE cSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTH NORTHEAST..HOWEVER AN OLD SYSTEM OVER NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS WAS MOVING EASTWARD AND AFTER MID AFTERNOON AN OVERALL EASTWARD SHIFT ON THE NORTHEAST TEXAS STORMS WILL TAKE PLACE.
Special weather statement, Apr 1, 2:33 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 230 PM CST FRI APR 1 1988 TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND MUCH OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA ..SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. A SQUALL LINE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP WITH ISOLATED STRONG STORMS DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL REACH SEVERE INTENSITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD KEEP POSTED ON THE LATEST BULLETINS ISSUED BY AREA WEATHER OFFICES. AT 230 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTH NORTHEAST SOUTHWEST OF BATTIEST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST OF IDABEL OKLAHOMA..BETWEEN LONGVIEW TEXAS AND JEFFERSON AND FROM SOUTHWEST OF TYLER TO NORTHEAST OF COLLEGE STATION. . THE STRONG STORMS APPOACHING IDABELL OKLAHOMA FROM THE SOUTHWEST ARE INCREASING AT 2:30 PM AND MAY REACH SEVERE INTENSITY IN THE NEXT HOUR. INITIALLY THESE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTH NORTHEAST..HOWEVER AN OLD SYSTEM OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AND BY LATE AFTERNOON THE STORMS OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS WILL FORM INTO A LINE AND A EASTWRD MOVEMENT OF THE NEW SYSTEM WILL TAKE PLACE. THE STORM SYSTEM WILL SPREAD FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE ARKLATEX TONIGHT WITH A FEW SEVERE STORMS..ALSO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg | 63 min |
| Apr 1, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison | 65 min |
| Apr 1, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Marion | 65 min |
| Apr 1, 4:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola, Shelby | 59 min |
| Apr 1, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 57 min |
| Apr 1, 5:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 70 min |
| Apr 1, 5:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass | 70 min |
| Apr 1, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Shelby | 62 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1988Every tornado warning in 1988Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.