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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 6, 1995Panola County, Rusk County, Shelby County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1995, 12:37 AM CDT for Panola County, Rusk County, Shelby County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 1995, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Shelby County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 286 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1242 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1242 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.8
Supercell composite
9.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWebster37 min
May 5, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg, Rusk44 min
May 6, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.