Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1995, 4:47 PM CDT for McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1995, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCurtain County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 897 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KSHV 052147 RRA SVRSHV OKC089-052245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 447 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ...WESTERN MCCURTAIN COUNTY AT 445 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN MCCURTAIN COUNTY OVER PINE CREEK LAKE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, Jun 5, 1:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-051930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 130 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 120 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM MENA ARKANSAS TO BONHAM AND GREENVILLE TEXAS. A FEW SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA NEAR EAGLETOWN AND HAWORTH AND JUST WEST OF LAKE OF THE PINES IN TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AND MAY BECOME SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHUR STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-ARZ051-059-052030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 235 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS WHICH INCLUDES BOWIE - CASS - MARION - HARRISON - PANOLA -RUSK AND GREGG COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INCLUDING MCCURTAIN COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 225 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM MCALESTER OKLAHOMA TO PARIS TEXAS. SHOWERS WERE ALSO INDICATED NORTH OF DIERKS ARKANSAS AND BETWEEN DEKALB TEXAS AND FOREMAN ARKANSAS. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AND MAY BECOME SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-ARZ050-051-059-052145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 341 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS WHICH INCLUDES BOWIE - CASS - MARION - HARRISON - PANOLA - RUSK AND GREGG COUNTIES AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA INCLUDING MCCURTAIN COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 335 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT CONTINUED TO SHOW A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM TALIHINA...NASHOBA...JUST EAST OF HUGO OKLAHOMA TO WEST OF CLARKSVILLE. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTHWEST OF ASHDOWN ARKANSAS. OTHER SHOWERS WERE NEAR DIERKS AND LOCKESBURG ARKANSAS AND NORTH OF NEW BOSTON TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER NORTH- EAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PEOPLE IN MCCURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA SHOULD BE PREPARED AS WARNINGS MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 62 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.