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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 5, 1995Tensas Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1995, 6:14 AM CST for Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 min.

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The facts

Issued
Mar 5, 1995, 6:14 AM CST (12:14 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 1995, 6:45 AM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Tensas Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 57 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 290 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
57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 5, 1:06 AM CST, 5 hours 8 minutes before
STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
106 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995

STORM REPORTS FOR SUNDAY MARCH 5TH 1995

TIME CST PARISH/COUNTY/STATE   EVENT/LOCATION

1225 AM  BOSSIER      LA   LARGE MARBLE SIZE HAIL (0.75 INCHES) AT
                           SLIGO.  NOTICE TO SELS...THE LOCATION IS
                           NOT SILGO AS REFERRED TO IN THE NEWSVRSHV
                           STATEMENT ISSUED AT 1242 AM.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 1:10 AM CST, 5 hours 4 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-153-ARZ050-051-059-060-061-
070-071-072-LAZ001-002-003-004-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-012-
013-014-015-016-018-019-021-025-023-017-050800-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
110 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1995

...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE
EASTERN ONE THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT...
...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN TEXAS
AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...

AT 105 AM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT SHOWED
A 100 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED TO
THE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR SPARKMAN ARKANSAS TO FOUKE ARKANSAS
TO NEAR TATUM TEXAS TO NEAR CHIRENO TEXAS. WITHIN THIS LARGE AREA
THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HAIL...GUSTY WINDS NEAR 50 MPH...BRIEF
HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE NOTED NORTHEAST OF BERNICE
LOUISIANA NEAR HOMER...NEAR MINDEN...NEAR RINGGOLD...NEAR HALL SUMMIT
AND NEAR MANSFIELD LOUISIANA AS WELL AS NEAR DE BERRY TEXAS.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR.

SURFACE REPORTS ALSO INDICATED DRIZZLE OVER EAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS...AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS NO IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF LOUISIANA
AND PARTS OF EXTREME EASTERN TEXAS UNTIL 700 AM.

WARM MOIST AIR CONTINUED TO OVERSPREAD COOLER AIR AT THE SURFACE
OVER THE ARKLATEX REGION TONIGHT RESULTING IN DENSE FOG.  THE FOG
HAD REDUCED THE VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE HALF MILE IN MANY AREAS
AND TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME.  THE FOG WILL MOST LIKELY REMAIN UNTIL
A WARM FRONT PASSES ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY AND ALLOWS DRIER AIR
TO FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE.

LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING TRAVELERS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION.

NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 3:20 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 11:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville61 min
Mar 5, 12:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Caddo63 min
Mar 5, 12:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto63 min
Mar 5, 12:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion68 min
Mar 5, 12:42 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWebster48 min
Mar 5, 1:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Webster57 min
Mar 5, 1:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville65 min

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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.