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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1989, 5:40 PM CDT for Madison Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 13, 1989, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1989, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Madison, LA |
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 text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jun 13, 1:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 505 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989 SEVERE STORM THREAT HAS ENDED OVER THE EAST HALF OF THE ARKLATEX... WILL REDEVELOP OVER THE WEST HALF THIS EVENING AND SPREAD EAST DURING THE NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. ALSO STORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE AREA WILL INCREASE THIS EVENING AND A FEW WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS AND LOCAL HIGH WIND GUSTS. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE WEST...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR AS WELL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT FOR THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE ARKLATEX..MAINLY LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. AT 455 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT WAS SHOWING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN A AREA FROM NEAR GREENVILLE MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR TALLULAH LOUISIANA TO NORTHWEST OF ALEXANDRIA ACROSS TOLEDO BEND LAKE THEN SOUTHWEST TO WEST OF LUFKIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS INTO NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS. THESE STORM WERE INCREA,SING AND SPREADING EAST AND SEVERE STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY DEVELOP. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THE STORM SYSTEM OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM NEAR LONGVIEW TO NEAR TYLER.
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.