Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 21, 1990, 11:49 AM CST for Nevada County, Arkansas. It was in force for 41 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
- Dec 21, 1990, 11:49 AM CST (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 21, 1990, 12:30 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nevada County, AR
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 12:15 PM CST | Hail 1 | Nevada, AR |
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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 1707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- 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, Dec 21, 6:07 AM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Dec 21, 8:20 AM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
OKZ026-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-002- 003-004-005-006-041430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 815 AM CST FRI DEC 21 1990 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AT 810 AM THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM WEST OF LONGVIEW TO BETWEEN PALESTINE AND CORSICANA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE INCREASING IN AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AND WILL BE MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN TEXAS..THEN INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHERN LOUISIANA FROM SOUTH OF ELDORADO THROUGH NATCHITOCHES TO THE TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY. THE THREAT OF MORE SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS OVER MUCH OF THE ARKLATEX FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING INTO THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 12:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 68 min |
| Dec 21, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Webster | 65 min |
| Dec 21, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | East Carroll | 50 min |
| Dec 21, 10:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 57 min |
| Dec 21, 11:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Lincoln | 55 min |
| Dec 21, 1:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Richland, West Carroll | 67 min |
| Dec 21, 1:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Winn | 67 min |
| Dec 21, 1:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 72 min |
| Dec 21, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | East Carroll, Madison | 89 min |
| Dec 21, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Tensas | 89 min |
| Dec 21, 2:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Madison, Tensas | 58 min |
| Dec 21, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 65 min |
| Dec 21, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Red River | 88 min |
| Dec 21, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 88 min |
| Dec 21, 4:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Tensas | 57 min |
| Dec 21, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Madison, Tensas | 59 min |
| Dec 21, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 60 min |
| Dec 21, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Madison | 60 min |
| Dec 20, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 67 min |
| Dec 20, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison | 65 min |
| Dec 21, 8:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 61 min |
| Dec 21, 8:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison | 61 min |
| Dec 21, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola, Shelby | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.