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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 25, 1990Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1990, 8:53 PM CDT for Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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 25, 1990, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1990, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Rusk County, TX

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 25, 9:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Rusk, TX

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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 31 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:09 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
800 PM CDT MON JUN 25 1990

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORTS FOR MONDAY JUNE 25 1990

TIME CDT   CNTY/PRSH    ST     EVENT/LOCATION/DAMAGE

 235 PM    OUACHITA     LA  .. NICKEL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF CALHOUN

 235 PM    UNION        LA .. ONE AND A HALF INCH HAIL WEST OF DOWNS-
                              VILLE.

 240 PM    LINCOLN      LA .. ONE INCH HAIL..HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN
                              REPORTED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHOUDRANT.

 250 PM    LINCOLN      LA .. NICKEL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
.                             RUSTON.

 250   PM  OUACHITA     LA .. ONE INCH HAIL..HIGHS WINDS AND HEAVY
                              RAIN REPORTED 5 MILES NORTH OF CALHOUN.

 320   PM  NEVADA       AR .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT CALE.

 330   PM  NEVADA       AR .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF
                              BLUFF CITY.

 340   PM  COLUMBIA     AR .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 8 MILES EAST OF
                              MAGNOLIA.

 345   PM  UNION        LA .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
                              FARMERVILLE.

 350   PM  NEVADA       AR .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 3 MILES EAST OF
                              PRESCOTT.

 400   PM  NEVADA       AR .. 3.45 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2 HOURS AT CALE.

 415   PM  COLUMBIA     AR .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN EBENEEZER.
 .

 420   PM  NEVADA       AR .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN YOUNG.

 425   PM  LINCOLN      LA .. ONE INCH HAIL 8 MILES WEST OF DUBACH.

 430   PM  WEBSTER      LA .. ONE INCH HAIL IN DUBERLY.

 450   PM  BIENVILLE    LA .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT PLEASANT HILL.

 445   PM  BIENVILLE    LA .. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN
                              BETWEEN TAYLOR AND GIBSLAND.

 530   PM  SABINE       LA .. ONE INCH HAIL 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
                              MANY.

 535   PM  SHELBY       TX .. NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN SHELBY.

 .
 545   PM  BOSSIER      LA .. MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN
                              1.6 MILES NORTH OF PLAIN DEALING.

 545   PM  HOWARD       AR .. WIND DAMAGE TO TREES 5 MILES NORTH
                              OF NASHVILLE.

 554   PM  BOWIE        TX .. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN NEAR WAKE VILLAGE
                              WINDS ESTIMATED TO 70 MPH ALONG WITH
                              GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL.

......MORE STORMS REPORTS WILL FOLLOW.....q

The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	69 min
Jun 25, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	69 min
Jun 25, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	69 min
Jun 25, 9:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Caddo	3 hr
Jun 25, 9:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier	3 hr
Jun 25, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Panola	45 min
Jun 25, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	26 min
Jun 25, 9:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Gregg	3 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.