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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 6, 1995Bienville Parish, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 8:53 PM CST for Bienville Parish, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 1995, 8:53 PM CST (02:53 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1995, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bienville Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1090 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 6, 4:25 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 6, 7:45 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 2:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	64 min
Mar 7, 2:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	64 min
Mar 7, 2:36 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Tensas	69 min
Mar 7, 2:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Madison	61 min
Mar 7, 4:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	60 min
Mar 7, 4:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	60 min
Mar 7, 4:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson	67 min
Mar 7, 7:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville	47 min
Mar 7, 7:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Winn	57 min
Mar 7, 7:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln	57 min
Mar 7, 8:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Tensas	51 min
Mar 7, 2:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	63 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.