Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1990, 4:03 AM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1990, 4:03 AM CDT (09:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1990, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, AR
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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 3120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 11.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 020904 SVRSHV ARC061-109-133-021000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 403 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...HOWARD COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY...NORTHERN SEVIER COUNTY AT 355 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF DEQUEEN ARKANSAS. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NORTH OF UMPIRE ARKANSAS. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF HAIL AND HIGH WINDS...HEAVY RAINS THAT MAY CAUSE LOW AREA FLOODING ARE LIKELY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEALVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 2, 12:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006- 020600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1210 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AT 1205 AM THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCALESTER OKLAHOMA INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS TO ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF PARIS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NEAR 35 MPH. SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RNAINFALL.. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-020730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 115 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERST
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-020900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 235 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO SPREAD EAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. AT 230 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THE LEADING EDGE OF WHICH EXTENDED FROM NEAR MOUNT IDA ARKANSAS TO FOREMAN ARKANSAS TO BOGATA TEXAS. WITHIN THIS AREA THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS..BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED NORTH OF BROKEN BOW OKLAHOMA...15 MILES NORTHWEST OF VALLIANT OKLAHOMA AND NEAR LAKE GREESON IN ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 35 MILES AN HOUR. . ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOTED WEST OF ATHENS TEXAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST AND AFFECT THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ARKLATEX THROUGH THE PRE DAWN HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Pike | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Pike | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.