Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1992, 2:33 AM CST for Marion County, Texas; Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 1992, 2:33 AM CST (08:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1992, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Caddo Parish, LA, Marion County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 080834 SVRSHV TXC315-LAC017-080930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 233 AM CST WED JAN 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...MARION COUNTY IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN CADDO PARISH AT 230 AM WEATHER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR JEFFERSON TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...HIGH AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRsONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Jan 7, 8:41 PM CST, 5 hours 52 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-080400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 835 PM CST TUE JAN 7 1992 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... AT 835 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER HEMPSTEAD COUNTY NEAR WASHINGTON. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS. OTHER SHOWER ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED IN PIKE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ELSEWHERE ONLY PATCHY LIGHT RAIN WAS INDICATED OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISISANA.
Special weather statement, Jan 8, 1:34 AM CST, 59 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-080900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 130 AM CST WED JAN 8 1992 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL TEXAS INTO NORTHWEST LOUISIANA... AT 125 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF LONGSTREET LOUISIANA...8 MILES NORTHWEST OF CENTER TEXAS AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NACOGDOCHES TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN A 70 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM GLADEWATER TEXAS TO DE RIDDER LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 35 MPH. ELSEWHERE...PATCHY LIGHT RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE NOTED IN A 60 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR MONTICELLO ARKANSAS TO SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER 50 MILE WIDE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WAS INDICATED FROM NEAR MENA ARKANSAS TO NEAR PITTSBURG TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND SPREAD ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EASTERN TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto | 63 min |
| Jan 8, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1992Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.