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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 9, 1992East Carroll Parish, Madison Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1992, 9:45 PM CST for East Carroll Parish, Madison Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 9, 1992, 9:45 PM CST (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 1992, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties East Carroll Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 686 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 9.4

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The text

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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, 4:43 PM CST, 5 hours 2 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	Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn	94 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, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	48 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.