Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1994, 9:41 PM CDT for Bowie County, Cass County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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
- May 14, 1994, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1994, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bowie County, TX, Cass County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hughes Springs, TX | A brief tornado touchdown blew down some trees. |
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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 3217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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, May 14, 5:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 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>027-142330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 530 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ..BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 525 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS THAT WAS LOCATED FROM CENTER THROUGH APPLEBEE TO BETWEEN GRAPELAND AND CROCKETT TEXAS. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS BAND WERE INDICATED 15 MILES EAST OF GRAPELAND...ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF NACOGDOCHES... AND NEAR APPLEBEE TEXAS. THESE STRONG STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND SPOTTY HAIL. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTH AT NEAR 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR OVER EAST TEXAS THIS EVENING...WITH THE ACTIVITY SPREADING INTO THE REMAINDER OF THE ARKLATEX LATER TONIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUED IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN TEXAS WEST OF A LINE FROM TYLER TO AUSTIN TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...WHICH MAY RESULT IN FLOODING PROBLEMS...MAINLY IN URBAN AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
Special weather statement, May 14, 5:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 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>027-142330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 530 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ..BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 525 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS THAT WAS LOCATED FROM CENTER THROUGH APPLEBEE TO BETWEEN GRAPELAND AND CROCKETT TEXAS. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS BAND WERE INDICATED 15 MILES EAST OF GRAPELAND...ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF NACOGDOCHES... AND NEAR APPLEBEE TEXAS. THESE STRONG STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND SPOTTY HAIL. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTH AT NEAR 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR OVER EAST TEXAS THIS EVENING...WITH THE ACTIVITY SPREADING INTO THE REMAINDER OF THE ARKLATEX LATER TONIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUED IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN TEXAS WEST OF A LINE FROM TYLER TO AUSTIN TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCXUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...WHICH MAY RESULT IN FLOODING PROBLEMS...MAINLY IN URBAN AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 70 min |
| May 14, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Webster | 65 min |
| May 14, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 62 min |
| May 15, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 57 min |
| May 15, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | De Soto | 4 hr |
| May 14, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison | 70 min |
| May 14, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 55 min |
| May 14, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 65 min |
| May 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 64 min |
| May 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 64 min |
| May 14, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass | 50 min |
| May 14, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Marion | 38 min |
| May 14, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 61 min |
| May 15, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison | 57 min |
| May 15, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Harrison | 4 hr |
| May 15, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 3 hr |
| May 14, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 57 min |
| May 14, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 65 min |
| May 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 64 min |
| May 14, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada | 63 min |
| May 14, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 69 min |
| May 14, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 56 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.