Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1992, 5:18 PM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 57 min. 4 reports 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
- Jul 14, 1992, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Pike County, AR, Sevier County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Pike, AR | |
| Jul 14, 5:39 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hempstead, AR | |
| Jul 14, 5:42 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Sevier, AR | |
| Jul 14, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Howard, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 142226 COR SVRSHV ARC109-057-133-061-142315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 518 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.. IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...SOUTHERN PIKE...EXTREME NORTHERN HEMPSTEAD... SOUTHEAST SEVIER AND SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTIES... AT 515 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF MURFREESBORO OR JUST WEST ROY ARKANSAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL...AND UPON DECAY...HIGH WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS ARE LIKELY. ALSO A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LOCKESBURG. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A BAND OF STORNG THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM SOUTHEAST OF HOT SPRINGS TO JUST NORTH OF ASHDOWN TO NEAR PARIS TEXAS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG 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, Jul 14, 2:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-142130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 230 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1992 ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE ARKLATEX... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEAST THIRD OF THE AREA. AT 230 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLEENWOOD ARKANSAS AND ALONG THE LOUISIANA/ARKANSAS BORDER NEAR HUTTING. SCATTERD SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA GENERALLY SOUTH OF TALLULAH JONESBORO LOUISIANA AND CENTER TEXAS LINE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF MANY...SOUTHEAST OF WINNFIELD...NORTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA WEST OF HARRISONBURG AND NEAR BUNKIE LOUISIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. UPON DECAY OF THE STRONG THUNDER STORMS LIGHT GUSTY WINDS WILL OCCUR...AND DURING THIS SEASON OF THE YEAR TREE DAMAGE CAN OCCUR. AS THESE OLD STORMS DECAY...NEW STORMS WILL DEVELOP FARTHER NORTH LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001- 002-003-004-005-006-142300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 345 PM CDT TUE JULY 14 1992 THUNDERSTORMS DECAYING ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA OVER THE PAST HOUR. AS A RESULT NEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR MONROE TO COLUMBIA TO EAST OF WINNSBORO. ALSO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF SHREVEPORT TO DRISKEL MOUNTAIN SOUTH OF ARCADIA. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY PRODUCIONG HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WITH FREQUENT LIGHTENING AND DURING DECAY MAY PRODUCE WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. TREE DAMAGE CAN ALSO OCCUR WITH THESE TYPE STORMS. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP OUT AHEAD OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
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.