Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1989, 4:04 PM CST for Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1989, 4:04 PM CST (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1989, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSHV 282207
TORSHV
LAC015-017-282300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
404 PM CST TUE MAR 28 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES...
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
...BOSSIER...CADDO
AT 405 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO FORMING JUST EAST OF BLANCHARD LOUISIANA. THE PARENT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE
STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE RED RIVER HALFWAY BETWEEN BENTON AND
BOSSIER CITY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.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, Mar 28, 10:34 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1020 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1989 SLOW MOVING BAND OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COMTINUE TO ADVANCE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. A FEW OF THES STORMS HAVE PR0DUCED WINDS OF 30 TO OVER 50 MPH ALONG WITH SPOTTY HAIL. THE SYSTEM MOVING SLOW WITH REPEAT STORMS OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA HAS RESULTED IN RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES WITH ISOLATED VERY HEAVY AMOUNTS. THE SYSTEM OVERALL HAS DECREAESED SOME...HOWEVER A FEW STRONG STORMS CONTINUE IN THE UPPER SABINE VALLEY AND UPPER SUPPORT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE SOUTHWEST TP REFIRE THE OLD SYSTEM. FOR THE REMAINDER OF TODAY...NEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN TEXAS INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTH WEST ARKANSAS. THE OLD SYSTEM OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST SOUTHWARD WILL INCREASE BY EARLY AFTERNOON WITH SEVERE STORMS DEVELOP- ING/ BY EARLY AFTERNOON ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE MAIN SYSTEM OVER NORTHCENTRL LOUISIANA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS EXIST FO THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE ARKLATEX THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF TONIGHT. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS...VERY HEAVY RAIN- FALL OF TWO TO THREE INCHES WILL HAVE AFFECTED MOST OF THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH ISOLATED VERY HEAVY AMOUNTS OF FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OVER A SIX HOUR PERIOD THAT WILL RESULT IN LOW AREA FLOODING.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 10:50 AM CST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1020 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1989 SLOW MOVING BAND OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COMTINUE TO ADVANCE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. A FEW OF THES STORMS HAVE PR0DUCED WINDS OF 30 TO OVER 50 MPH ALONG WITH SPOTTY HAIL. THE SYSTEM MOVING SLOW WITH REPEAT STORMS OVER THE SAME GENERAL AREA HAS RESULTED IN RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES WITH ISOLATED VERY HEAVY AMOUNTS. THE SYSTEM OVERALL HAS DECREAESED SOME...HOWEVER A FEW STRONG STORMS CONTINUE IN THE UPPER SABINE VALLEY AND UPPER SUPPORT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO REFIRE THE OLD SYSTEM. FOR THE REMAINDER OF TODAY...NEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN TEXAS INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTH WEST ARKANSAS. THE OLD SYSTEM OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS SOUTHWARD WILL INCREASE BY MID DAY WITH SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH VERY HEVY RAIFALL. BY MID AFTERNOON ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE MAIN SYSTEM OVER NORTHCENTRL LOUISIANA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS EXIST FO THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE ARKLATEX THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF TONIGHT. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS...VERY HEAVY RAIN- FALL OF TWO TO THREE INCHES WILL HAVE AFFECTED MOST OF THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH ISOLATED VERY HEAVY AMOUNTS OF FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OVER A SIX HOUR PERIOD THAT WILL RESULT IN LOW AREA FLOODING. A TORNADOO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE AT 11 AM CST FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN TEXAS.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 12:23 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1225 PM CST TUE MAR 28 1989 ...TORNADO WARCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EAST TEXAS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ...ALSO OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. AT 1220 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A 30 MILE BAND OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR DEQUEEN ARKANSAS TO NEAR TEXARKANA TO BETWEEN LONGVIEW AND TYLER TO 30 MILES EAST OF COLLEGE STATION. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN A NARROW BAND FROM NEW BOSTON TEXAS ACROSS THE UPPER PART OF LAKE O PINES TO JUST NORTH- WEST OF GLADEWATER TEXAS. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS 30 MILES EAST OF COLLEGE STATION. THE SYSTEMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST LESS THAN 20 MPH...THUS VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL OCCUR AND RESULT IN LOW AREA FLOODING. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE TRACKING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH. THE SYSTEM OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS WILL DIMINISH IN AREAL COVERAGE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH INDIVIDUAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING. THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS WILL TRACK NORTHEAST INTO THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND LIKELY REACH SEVERE INTENSITY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. NEW SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE TOLSEDO BEND COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON..ALSO OVER SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS. THE STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT MAINLY THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE ARKLATEX THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDASY.
Local storm report, Mar 28, 1:12 PM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
ARC091-057-282030-
BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
100 PM CST TUE MAR 28 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES AND
PARISHES IN
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST MILLER
SOUTHEAST AHLF OF HEMPSTEAD
AT 1 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A RHUNDERSORM NEAR THE TEXARKANA AIRPORT
THAT WAS LIKELY PRODUCING HIGH WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 95 min |
| Mar 28, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 85 min |
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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.