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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Shreveport, LA

November 1, 1995Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1995, 9:21 PM CST for Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 1, 1995, 9:21 PM CST (03:21 UTC)
Expired
Nov 1, 1995, 10:00 PM CST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Rusk County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 266 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-11-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 854 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-11-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 1, 11:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier26 min
Nov 2, 12:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion52 min
Nov 2, 1:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWinn25 min
Nov 1, 9:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPanola40 min
Nov 1, 9:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSevier45 min
Nov 2, 12:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.