Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 6:15 AM CDT for De Soto Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 6:15 AM CDT (11:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County De Soto Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 181117 SVRSHV LAC031-181145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 615 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN DE SOTO PARISH AT 615 AM...THE SHREVEPORT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTHEAST OF LOGANSPORT LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS HIGH WINDS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR. NNNN
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 18, 4:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
TXZ137-138-150-151-153-165-152-166-167-181015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 409 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EASTERN TEXAS INCLUDING ANGELINA...SAN AUGUSTINE...AND NACOGDOCHES COUNTIES... AT 405 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A 65 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM CENTERVILLE TO RUSK TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED NEAR HUNTSVILLE AND CROCKETT TEXAS. SOME OF THESE STORM ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto | 59 min |
| May 18, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 59 min |
| May 18, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 57 min |
| May 18, 5:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Red River | 56 min |
| May 18, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lincoln, Union | 52 min |
| May 18, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson | 52 min |
| May 18, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Red River | 54 min |
| May 18, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 38 min |
| May 18, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Winn | 38 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.