Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1993, 10:00 PM CDT for Howard County, Sevier County, Arkansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 1993, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1993, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Howard County, AR, Sevier County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 090300 RRA SVRSHV ARC133-061-090400- BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...SEVIER AND WESTERN HOWARD COUNTIES... AT 955 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF LOCKESBURG ARKANSAS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. ALONG WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL HEAVY RAINS WERE ALSO NOTED. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. AND REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OFTEN DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM. BASEBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED FROM AN EARLIER STORM AT 556 PM BETWEEN DE QUEEN AND GILLHAM ARKANSAS. &
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, Oct 8, 9:50 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
OKZ076-077-049-053-TXZ095-097-TXZ106>112-TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-ARZ059>061-ARZ066-ARZ070>073-LAZ001>027-090400- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 950 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 1993 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NOTED IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 945 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 50 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR MANNING ARKANSAS ACROSS DIERKS ARKANSAS AND SOBOL OKLAHOMA TO NEAR ARDMORE OKLAHOMA. WITHIN THIS AREA SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NEAR DE QUEEN ARKANSAS AND NORTH OF BROKEN BOW OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN MC CURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA...SEVIER AND CENTRAL HOWARD COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. ALONG WITH THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED TO FALL OVER THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVERNIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE TWO TO FOUR INCH RAIN. SOME PONDING OF WATER HAD BEEN NOTED. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO DEVELOP IN SEVIER AND HOWARD COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND THE EASTERN PART OF MC CURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA. ALSO...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED AROUND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. vAVE A NICE NIGHT AND A GGGGRRREE gf6WWUSj @
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 9:51 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
OKZ076-077-049-053-TXZ095-097-TXZ106>112-TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153- 166-167-ARZ050>053-ARZ059>061-ARZ066-ARZ070>073-LAZ001>027-090400- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 950 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 1993 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NOTED IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 945 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 50 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR MANNING ARKANSAS ACROSS DIERKS ARKANSAS AND SOBOL OKLAHOMA TO NEAR ARDMORE OKLAHOMA. WITHIN THIS AREA SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NEAR DE QUEEN ARKANSAS AND NORTH OF BROKEN BOW OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN MC CURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA...SEVIER AND CENTRAL HOWARD COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. ALONG WITH THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED TO FALL OVER THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVERNIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE TWO TO FOUR INCH RAIN. SOME PONDING OF WATER HAD BEEN NOTED. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO DEVELOP IN SEVIER AND HOWARD COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND THE EASTERN PART OF MC CURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA. ALSO...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED AROUND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 67 min |
| Oct 8, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 65 min |
| Oct 8, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead | 55 min |
| Oct 8, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard | 65 min |
| Oct 8, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 65 min |
| Oct 8, 11:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 4 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 65 min |
| Oct 9, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Little River | 62 min |
| Oct 9, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 60 min |
| Oct 9, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.