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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 9, 1992Jackson Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Winn Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1992, 7:41 PM CST for Jackson Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Winn Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 94 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 9, 1992, 7:41 PM CST (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 1992, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 94 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jackson Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 9, 9:20 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.8

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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 9, 2:44 PM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
240 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR MONDAY MARCH 9 1992

TIME CST    CNTY/PRSH  STATE  EVENT/LOCATION/DAMAGE

1230 PM     BOWIE/CASS   TX   FLOODING...SECONDARY ROADS...UNDERPASSES
                              IN TEXARKANA...NEW BOSTON AND LINDEN
100  PM     LITTLE RIVER AR   LOW AREA FLOODING NEAR FOREMAN AND INDEX
                              4.20 INCHES OF RAIN AT INDEX SINCE 7 AM
200  PM     MILLER       AR   FLOODING IN TEXARKANA ARKANSAS...SEVERAL
            HEMPSTEAD    AR   STREETS AND US 82 INTO SOUTHWEST HEMPSTEAD
                              COUNTY.
218  PM     RUSK         TX   ONE INCH HAIL AND HIGH WINDS DOWNED SEVERAL
                              TREES 5 MILES WEST OF HENDERSON TEXAS.
230  PM     GREGG        TX   ONE INCH HAIL AND HIGH WINDS NEAR EASTON
235  PM     HARRISON     TX   FUNNEL CLOUD 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARSHALL
                              TEXAS...NICKLE SIZE HAIL.

Local storm report, Mar 9, 4:43 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
440 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR MONDAY MARCH 9 1992

TIME CST    CNTY/PRSH  STATE  EVENT/LOCATION/DAMAGE

351 PM      EAST CARROL  LA   WIND DAMAGE...POSSIBLE TORNADO IN DOWNTOWN
                              LAKE PROVIDENCE. PATH OF DAMAGE 3/4 MILE
                              LONG...DOWNING NUMEROUS POWER LINES AND TREES.
                              DAMAGE TO NUMEROUS AUTOMOBILES...STRUCTURAL
                              DAMAGE UNKNOWN. DOWN POWER LINE CAUSED FIRE
                              AT A SCHOOL. FIVE MINOR INJURIES REPORTED
                              AND ANOTHER POSSIBLE INJURY AS A RESULT OF
            H                  FALLING TREES ON AUTOMOBILE.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BE RELAYED AS RECEIVED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 6:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne	58 min
Mar 9, 6:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Red River	87 min
Mar 9, 6:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville	87 min
Mar 9, 6:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	63 min
Mar 9, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Union	48 min
Mar 9, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson, Winn	48 min
Mar 9, 7:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Red River	57 min
Mar 9, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Morehouse, Ouachita, Union	94 min
Mar 9, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	94 min
Mar 9, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln	94 min
Mar 9, 8:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Richland, West Carroll	92 min
Mar 9, 8:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell	92 min
Mar 9, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	East Carroll	65 min
Mar 9, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	East Carroll, Madison	60 min
Mar 9, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	48 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.