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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1989, 4:30 PM CDT for Franklin Parish, Madison Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 70 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 30, 1989, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1989, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin Parish, LA, 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 30, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Franklin, 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 nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 686 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 302137 TORSHV LAC041-065-302240- BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 430 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1989 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 540 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES/PARISHES IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...NORTHEAST FRANKLIN AND MADISON AT 430 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE T0RNADO WAS LOCATED NORTHEAST OF WINNSBORO LOUISIANA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. . PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A PERMANENT STRUCTURE ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR SMALL ROOM. GET UNDER A PIECE OF HEAVY FURNITURE OR COVER YOURSELF WITH SOMETHING TO PROTECT AGAINST FLYING OR FALLING DEBRIS.
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
Local storm report, Jun 30, 2:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 135 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1989 THE FOLLOWING ARE 72 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS FOR WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AS A RESULT OF ALLISON ENDING AT 800 AM. WINNFIELD LOUISIANA...................... 20.64 WINNFIELD LOUISIANA 3 MILES NORTHWEST.... 22.52 GORUM FIRE TOWER IN NATCHITOCHES PARISH.. 19.17 MARTION FIRE TOWER..NATCHITOCHES PARISH.. 16.42 FISHER FIRE TOWER...SABINE PARISH........ 12.70 MANY LOUISIANA........................... 12.80 NATCHITOCHES LOUISIANA................... 13.66 NUMEROUS OTHER LOCATIONS WITH OVER TEN INCHES IN WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THE JUNE RAINFALL FOR WINNFIELD LOUISIANA THROUGH 8AM ON JUNE 30TH WAS 30.22 INCHES...WHICH NEEDLESS TO SAY IS THE WETTEST JUNE OF RECORD. SHREVEPORT ALSO HAD ITS WETTEST JUNE OF RECORD. THE OLD RECORD WAS 14.67 INCHES WHICH OCCURRED IN 1986. THROUGH 1 PM TODAY THE MONTHLY TOTAL WAS 16.02 WITH RAIN STILL FALLING. MONROE LOUISIANA RECORDED ITS THIRD WETTEST JUNE OF RECORD WITH 10.23 INCHES. WITH MORE RAIN EXPECTED BY LATE AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 2:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 210 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1989 BAND OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO SPREAD EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. AHEAD OF THE BAND ISOLATED THUNDERSTOMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...BEHIND THE BAND A LARGE MASS OF LIGHT RAIN COVERED MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA. AT 205 PM THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR TEXARKANA THROUGH MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS...THROUGH RUSTON ON TO NEAR ALEXANDRIA. GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WINDS ARE OCCURRING ALONG WITH THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH RAINFALL OF ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCH IN LESS THAN AN HOURS TIME. . THE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA WILL LIKELY INCREASE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS PRODUCING SPOTTY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALLY HIGH WIND GUSTS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF THE ARKLATEX THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AND MAY BY EXTENDED NORTHWARD OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS LATER TONIGHT. A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA WILL NOT RESULT IN ANY ADDITIONAL FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER CONSIDERABLE LOWLAND FLOODING CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF WESTCENTRAL LOUISIANA WITH SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO THE RAINFALL OF TEN TO TWENTY INCHES OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS. ALSO... US 84 EAST OF WINNFIELD REMAINS CLOSED DUE TO THE FLOODING ALONG THE DOGDEMONA RIVER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | East Carroll, West Carroll | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Tensas | 58 min |
| Jun 30, 12:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 12:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Winn | 6 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.