Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 3, 1992, 2:05 PM CST for Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 70 min. 3 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
- Nov 3, 1992, 2:05 PM CST (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 1992, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Caddo, LA | |
| Nov 3, 2:40 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Bossier, LA | |
| Nov 3, 3:12 PM CST | Hail 2 | Bossier, 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 464 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 032018 TORSHV LAC017-015-032115- BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 205 PM CST TUE NOV 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA... SOUTHERN CADDO AND SOUTHERN BOSSIER... INCLUDING THE SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. INDICATIONS ARE THAT A TORNADO HAS FORMED OR IS DEVELOPING IN OR NEAR THE SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE EXACT LOCATION AND MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WILL FOLLOW SHORTLY. NOTE TO MEDIA...PLEASE BROADCAST THIS BULLETIN IMMEDIATELY AND FREQUENTLY AND INCLUDE APPROPRIATE TORNADO SAFETY RULES. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A PERMANENT STRUCTURE ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR SMALL ROOM. GET UNDER A PIECE OF HEAVY FURNITURE OR COVER YOURSELF WITH SOMETHING TO PROTECT AGAINST FLYING OR FALLING DEBRIS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 3 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, 3 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, 1 hour 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, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 94 min |
| Nov 3, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 94 min |
| Nov 3, 2:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | De Soto | 59 min |
| Nov 3, 2:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Webster | 76 min |
| Nov 3, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Red River | 62 min |
| Nov 3, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 59 min |
| Nov 3, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 85 min |
| Nov 3, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | De Soto, Red River | 61 min |
| Nov 3, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Lincoln | 61 min |
| Nov 3, 3:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 99 min |
| Nov 3, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Winn | 77 min |
| Nov 3, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Winn | 72 min |
| Nov 3, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 72 min |
| Nov 3, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita | 83 min |
| Nov 3, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll | 75 min |
| Nov 3, 5:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | East Carroll, Madison, Tensas | 96 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.