Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 338, NWS Shreveport, LA

November 3, 1992De Soto Parish, Louisiana; Shelby County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 3, 1992, 3:05 PM CST for De Soto Parish, Louisiana; Shelby County, Texas. It was in force for 85 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
Nov 3, 1992, 3:05 PM CST (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Nov 3, 1992, 4:30 PM CST
In force
85 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties De Soto Parish, LA, Shelby County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 3, 3:42 PM CSTHail 1.75De Soto, 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 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, Nov 3, 10:44 AM CST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-031830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1045 AM CST TUE NOV 3 1992

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN TEXAS
AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THEN INTENSIFY AS
THEY SPREAD EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL LOUISIANA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  A FEW SEVERE
STORMS ARE POSSIBLE.

AT MID MORNING A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS LOCATED OVER EASTCENTRAL
OKLAHOMA WITH A COLD FRONT EXTENDING INTO CENTRAL TEXAS.  THIS
SYSTEM WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EASTWARD TODAY AND TONIGHT.  ALSO..MOISTURE
WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHWARD AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM INTO EAST TEXAS
LATE THIS MORNING.

SHOWERS AT MID MORNING HAD DEVELOPED HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST
TEXAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ARKASAS.  A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL
LIKELY DEVELOP FROM NORTHWEST OF TEXARKANSA TO NEAR TYLER AN D
COLLEGE STATION BY EARLY AFTERNOON AND SPREAD EASTWARD.

LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 10:46 AM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-031830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1045 AM CST TUE NOV 3 1992

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN TEXAS
AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THEN INTENSIFY AS
THEY SPREAD EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL LOUISIANA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  A FEW SEVERE
STORMS ARE POSSIBLE.

AT MID MORNING A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS LOCATED OVER EASTCENTRAL
OKLAHOMA WITH A COLD FRONT EXTENDING INTO CENTRAL TEXAS.  THIS
SYSTEM WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EASTWARD TODAY AND TONIGHT.  ALSO..MOISTURE
WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHWARD AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM INTO EAST TEXAS
LATE THIS MORNING.

SHOWERS AT MID MORNING HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND
EXTREME SOUTHWEST ARKASAS.  A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL
LIKELY DEVELOP FROM NORTHWEST OF TEXARKANSA TO NEAR TYLER AND
COLLEGE, STATION BY EARLY AFTERNOON AND SPREAD EASTWARD.

LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS REQUIRED.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 12:24 PM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-031915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1220 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992

LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEASTERN TEXAS
AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AT MIDDAY...AND SHOULD SPREAD EAST AND INTENSIFY
THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS...EXTREME EAST TEXAS...AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA AS THIS SYSTEM
MOVES EASTWARD.

AT 1220 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM
NEAR MURFREESBORO ARKANSAS...OR 40 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF TEXARKANA...
ACROSS TEXASRKANA ON TO BETWEEN TYLER AND LONGVIEW TO 40 MILES WEST OF
LUFKIN.

THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM
STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WERE OCCURING WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 70S
TO NEAR 80. IN WAKE OF THE SYSTEM STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ACCOMPANIED BY
MUCH COOLER AIR WJAS MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA.
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 1:16 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-032015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
110 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

AT 110 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ARKADELPHIA ARKANSAS TO HOPE...FOUKE
...TO JEFFERSON TEXAS ON TO LONGVIEW. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST NORTH-
EAST OF JEFFERSON. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL IS
LIKELY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE AHEAD OF THIS LINE FROM NEAR LUFKIN
TO NACOGADOCHES AND CENTER TO NEAR MANSFIELD LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS
TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH ARKANSAS AND
NORTH LOUISIANA. A FEW WILL BE SEVERE.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL TEXAS...MUCH OF NORTH AND
CENTRAL LOUISIANA...AND MUCH SOUTH AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 3, 1:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Caddo94 min
Nov 3, 1:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto94 min
Nov 3, 2:05 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVBossier, Caddo70 min
Nov 3, 2:16 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVDe Soto59 min
Nov 3, 2:29 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVWebster76 min
Nov 3, 2:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, Red River62 min
Nov 3, 3:01 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVClaiborne59 min
Nov 3, 3:14 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVDe Soto, Red River61 min
Nov 3, 3:14 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVBienville, Lincoln61 min
Nov 3, 3:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches, Sabine99 min
Nov 3, 3:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, Jackson, Winn77 min
Nov 3, 4:33 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVNatchitoches, Winn72 min
Nov 3, 4:33 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVUnion72 min
Nov 3, 5:07 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVCaldwell, Jackson, Ouachita83 min
Nov 3, 5:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVFranklin, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll75 min
Nov 3, 5:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVEast Carroll, Madison, Tensas96 min
Nov 3, 1:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLafayette55 min
Nov 3, 2:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia62 min
Nov 3, 2:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia62 min
Nov 3, 1:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison, Panola81 min
Nov 3, 1:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby81 min
Nov 3, 2:10 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVShelby65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1992Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.