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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 14, 1992Natchitoches Parish, Sabine Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1992, 6:16 PM CDT for Natchitoches Parish, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 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: May 14, 1992, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Natchitoches Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 14, 6:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Natchitoches, LA

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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 2724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, May 14, 5:28 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 6:13 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Webster	61 min
May 14, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	65 min
May 14, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	63 min
May 14, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Webster	55 min
May 14, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	63 min
May 14, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Webster	63 min
May 14, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	63 min
May 14, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches	60 min
May 14, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Webster	60 min
May 14, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	60 min
May 14, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Pike	58 min
May 14, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	57 min
May 14, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	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.