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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 5, 1992Miller County, Arkansas; Bowie County, Cass County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 1992, 6:50 PM CST for Miller County, Arkansas; Bowie County, Cass County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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: Mar 5, 1992, 6:50 PM CST (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1992, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Miller County, AR, Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 5, 7:03 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Bowie, TX
Mar 5, 7:05 PM CST	Hail 1	Miller, 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 1709 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 060051
TORSHV
ARC091-TXC037-067-060130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
650 PM CST THU MAR 5 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS..
 
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...MILLER COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN BOWIE COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN CASS COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 646 PM SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST
SOUTHEAST OF WRIGHT PATMAN DAM SOUTHWEST OF TEXARKANA MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST NEAR 35 MPH.
 
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE ADVISED TO TAKE SHELTER
IMMIDIATELY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 6:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Pike	25 min
Mar 5, 6:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Pike	32 min
Mar 5, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada, Pike	67 min
Mar 5, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	67 min
Mar 5, 7:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Miller, Pike	66 min
Mar 5, 8:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada	57 min
Mar 5, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Nevada	67 min
Mar 5, 9:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Pike	69 min
Mar 5, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nevada	60 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1992 Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1992 Every tornado warning in 1992 Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.