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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Shreveport, LA

December 17, 1995Sevier County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 1995, 5:25 AM CST for Sevier County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 17, 1995, 5:25 AM CST (11:25 UTC)
Expired
Dec 17, 1995, 5:49 AM CST
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Sevier County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 311 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 1995-12-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-12-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 212 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 17, 3:16 AM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 3:16 AM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 2:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaldwell28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 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.