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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 2, 1990Pike County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1990, 5:26 AM CDT for Pike County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1990, 5:26 AM CDT (10:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1990, 6:15 AM CDT
In force
49 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, 10.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3120 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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 2, 12:11 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 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, 4 hours 8 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, 2 hours 48 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVEast Carroll, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll96 min
Jun 2, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward, Pike57 min
Jun 2, 3:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSevier57 min
Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward, Sevier57 min
Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPike57 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.