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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 5, 1992Bienville Parish, Claiborne Parish, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1992, 10:05 PM CST for Bienville Parish, Claiborne Parish, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 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: Mar 5, 1992, 10:05 PM CST (04:05 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1992, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bienville Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 5, 10:20 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Bienville, 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 1709 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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, Mar 5, 7:23 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
725 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR THURSDAY  MARCH 5 1992...INCOMPLETE LIST...

TIME CST    CNTY/PRSH  STATE  EVENT/LOCATION/DAMAGE

 705 PM     MILLER     AR     FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR TEXARKANA WITH LARGE HAIL.

Local storm report, Mar 5, 7:50 PM CST, 2 hours 15 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
Mar 5, 6:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Pike	25 min
Mar 5, 6:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Pike	32 min
Mar 5, 6:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Miller	40 min
Mar 5, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada, Pike	67 min
Mar 5, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	67 min
Mar 5, 7:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Miller, Pike	66 min
Mar 5, 8:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada	57 min
Mar 5, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Nevada	67 min
Mar 5, 9:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Pike	69 min
Mar 5, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nevada	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.