Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1990, 12:35 PM CDT for Richland Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1990, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1990, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 3592 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
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 3, 6:47 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-031300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 645 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 AT 640 AM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA..SOUTHERN ARKANSAS..WESTERN MISSISSIPPI EXTENDING INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ABOUT 100 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM NEAR DURANT OKLAHOMA ACROSS IDABEL OKLAHOMA..HOPE AND WARREN ARKANSAS TO EAST OF GREENVILLE MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY. WITHIN THIS AREA...THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING EXTENDED FROM EAST OF EL DORADO TO NORTH OF MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS AND WERE NOTED NORTH OF HOPE AND EAST OF DEQUEEN ARKANSAS. . ALSO AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS NOTED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHERMAN TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTH SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-031425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 750 AM CDT SUN JAUN 3 1990 AT 745 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..NORTHEAST TEXAS.. SOUTH ARKANSAS..AND NORTH LOUISIANA ABOUT 70 MILES WIDE. THE AREA EXTENDED GENERALLY NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR PARIS SOUTHEAST TO ATLANTA TEXAS..CANFIELD ARKANSAS..AND BASTROP AND LAKE PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED NEAR FULTON AND HOPE ARKANSAS AND ALONG THE ARKANSAS/LOUISIANA STATE LINE NORTH OF BASTROP LOUISIANA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 8:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-031435- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 845 AM CDT SUN JAUN 3 1990 AT 845 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..NORTHEAST TEXAS..SOUTH ARKANSAS..AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE THAT WAS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR PARIS SOUTHEAST TO ATLANTA TEXAS..CANFIELD ARKANSAS..AND BASTROP AND LAKE PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED NEAR FULTON AND CAMDEN ARKANSAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 9:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-031535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 945 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 AT 945 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA..NORTHEAST TEXAS TEXAS..SOUTH ARKANSAS..AND EXTREME NORTH LOUISIANA ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE THAT WAS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR MT VERNON TEXAS TO LINDER TEXAS TO HOMER LOUISIANA TO OAK GROVE ARKANSAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CLARKSVILLE TEXAS..LEWISVILLE ARKANSAS AND JUST NORTH OF MAGNOLIA ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES HAS- WITH SOME AMOUNTS NEAR 4 INCHES OVERNIGHT OCCURRED WITH ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS THIS MORNING. LOW AREA FLOODING IS LIKELY ACROSS SOUTH ARKANSAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 87 min |
| Jun 3, 11:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie | 119 min |
| Jun 3, 1:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cass | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.