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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 13, 1994Bienville Parish, Red River Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1994, 9:22 PM CDT for Bienville Parish, Red River Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1994, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1994, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bienville Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 1747 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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

Special weather statement, May 13, 3:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 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>027-132200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
355 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994

...SEVERE STORM WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
INCLUDING EAST CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT AREAS OF WESTERN
LOUISIANA...ALSO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH
OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS.

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR HARRISON
COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS AT 400 PM CDT. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS
INDICATED FROM NEAR WOODLAWN TO HALLSVILLE...AND HAD PRODUCED HAIL
TO NICKLE SIZE NORTHEAST OF HALLSVILLE AND HIGH WINDS...FUNNEL CLOUD
SIGHTED ALONG INTERSTATE 20 BREIFLY BUT DISSIPATED. THE STORM HAD
DECREASED SOMEWHAT OVER THE PAST HALF HOUR.  THE STORM WAS PART OF
BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE INDICATED FROM NORTHEAST OF HOT SPRINGS
ARKANSAS TO NEAR LEWISVILLE ARKANSAS TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
LOUISIANA EAST OF RODESSA ON TO BETWEEN MARSHALL AND LONGVIEW TO NEAR
PALESTINE TEXAS.  ANOTHER STRONG STORM WITHIN THIS BAND WAS INDICATED
BETWEEN LEWISVILLE AND PRESCOTT ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST
NORTHEAST AT NEAR 20 MPH.

ANOTHER BAND OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOLEDO BEND DAM TO BETWEEN
HOUSTON AND COLLEGE STATION TEXAS.

Special weather statement, May 13, 3:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 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>027-132200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
355 PM CDT FRI MAY 13 1994

...SEVERE STORM WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS
INCLUDING EAST CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT AREAS OF WESTERN
LOUISIANA...ALSO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH
OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS.

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR HARRISON
COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS AT 400 PM CDT. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS
INDICATED FROM NEAR WOODLAWN TO HALLSVILLE...AND HAD PRODUCED HAIL
TO NICKLE SIZE NORTHEAST OF HALLSVILLE AND HIGH WINDS...FUNNEL CLOUD
SIGHTED ALONG INTERSTATE 20 BREIFLY BUT DISSIPATED. THE STORM HAD
DECREASED SOMEWHAT OVER THE PAST HALF HOUR.  THE STORM WAS PART OF
BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE INDICATED FROM NORTHEAST OF HOT SPRINGS
ARKANSAS TO NEAR LEWISVILLE ARKANSAS TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
LOUISIANA EAST OF RODESSA ON TO BETWEEN MARSHALL AND LONGVIEW TO NEAR
PALESTINE TEXAS.  ANOTHER STRONG STORM WITHIN THIS BAND WAS INDICATED
BETWEEN LEWISVILLE AND PRESCOTT ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE 6EAST
NORTHEAST AT NEAR 20 MPH.

ANOTHER BAND OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOLEDO BEND DAM TO BETWEEN
HOUSTON AND COLLEGE STATION TEXAS.

Local storm report, May 13, 7:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 7:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 9:15 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 9:15 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Natchitoches, Red River	65 min
May 13, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	65 min
May 13, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln	68 min
May 13, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne	69 min
May 13, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	46 min
May 13, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Ouachita	55 min
May 13, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	59 min
May 13, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Morehouse, Union	55 min
May 14, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	56 min
May 14, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	56 min
May 14, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	68 min
May 14, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk	61 min
May 14, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola, Rusk	65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.