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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Shreveport, LA

February 21, 1993Tensas Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 1993, 7:59 AM CST for Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 1993, 7:59 AM CST (13:59 UTC)
Expired
Feb 21, 1993, 8:30 AM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Tensas Parish, LA

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

Special weather statement, Feb 21, 4:05 AM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-211130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
405 AM CST SUN FEB 21 1992

...PATCHES OF RAIN...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS
CONTINUED TO SPREAD EAST NORTHEAST ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL
ARKANSAS...EASTERN TEXAS...NORTH AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 400 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A
90 MILE WIDE AREA OF PATCHY RAIN...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND AN ISOLATED
THUNDERSHOWER THAT EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSTON LOUISIANA
TO SOUTH OF LUFKIN TEXAS. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWER WAS NOTED WEST OF
CENTER TEXAS.

ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED TO
THE NORTHEAST OF A LINE THAT EXTENDED FROM MOUNT IDA ARKANSAS TO NEAR
STEPHENS ARKANSAS TO NEAR OAK GROVE LOUISIANA.
.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 45 MILES AN HOUR.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE OVER THE EASTERN HALF
OF THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING AS A FRONTAL SYSTEM MOVES OVER EASTERN
OKLAHOMA AND EASTERN TEXAS. THE POSSIBILITY FOR SOME OF THE STORMS TO
BECOME SEVERE THIS MORNING EXISTS OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST
ARKANSAS.
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 5:24 AM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
OKZ040-021-034-TXZ022-023-027-028-032-033-ARZ009-010-011-016-LAZ001-
002-003-004-005-006-211300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
520 AM CST SUN FEB 21 1992

...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP AND
SPREAD EAST NORTHEAST ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL TEXAS...SOUTHEAST
ARKANSAS...NORTH AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 515 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A
LARGE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED
SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR STAR CITY ARKANSAS TO JUNCTION CITY
ARKANSAS TO BIENVILLE LOUISIANA TO EAST OF SAN AUGUSTINE TEXAS. WITHIN
THIS AREA...THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45
MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED NEAR
WISNER LOUISIANA...IN A 10 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM CAMPTI
LOUISIANA TO NEAR ZWOLLE LOUISIANA AND SOUTH OF MONTICELLO ARKANSAS.

ALSO...ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE NOTED BETWEEN GARY AND APPLEBY TEXAS.
.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 45 MILES AN HOUR.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE
SOUTHEAST SECTIONS THIS MORNING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE.<
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING FOR
PART OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 6:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaldwell, Franklin, Winn63 min
Feb 21, 6:27 AM CSTTornado WarningSHVCaldwell, Franklin48 min
Feb 21, 7:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVTensas58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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.