Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 6:50 PM CDT for Cass County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cass County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 19, 12:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 19, 2:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-137>138-150>151-153-AR050>052-059>061-070>072-LA001- 002-009-010-017-018-192100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 230 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDESTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... AT 225 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM HUGO TO IDABEL OKLAHOMA EAST TO NASHVILLE ARKANSAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS AREA WERE LOCATED NEAR ASHDOWN NEAR BROKEN BOW AND JUST NORTHEAST OF MUFFESBORO. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND EAST CENTRAL TEXAS MAINLY NORTH OF THE LAKE CHARLES AREA TO NEAR MANY NORTH TO NEAR MANSFIELD LOUISIANA. . SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS COMTINUED ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS MAINLY NORTH OF A TYLER...CORSICANA LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 25 MPH. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE ARKLATEX WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME THUNDERSTORMS REACHING SEVERE LIMITS LATER TODAY. STAY TUNNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDHATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 2:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-137>138-150>151-153-ARZ050>052-059>061-070>072-LAZ001- 002-009-010-017-018-192100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 230 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDESTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... AT 225 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS FROM HUGO TO IDABEL OKLAHOMA EAST TO NASHVILLE ARKANSAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS AREA WERE LOCATED NEAR ASHDOWN NEAR BROKEN BOW AND JUST NORTHEAST OF MUFFESBORO. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND EAST CENTRAL TEXAS MAINLY NORTH OF THE LAKE CHARLES AREA TO NEAR MANY NORTH TO NEAR MANSFIELD LOUISIANA. . SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS COMTINUED ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS MAINLY NORTH OF A TYLER...CORSICANA LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 25 MPH. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 TO 45 MPH ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE ARKLATEX WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME THUNDERSTORMS REACHING SEVERE LIMITS LATER TODAY. STAY TUNNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHPER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 5:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-ARZ050-051-059-060-061-070- 071-072-LAZ001-002-003-004-005-012-013-014-006-192315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 510 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE ARKLATEX NORTH OF A LONGVIEW TO MONROE LINE... AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS NEAR MOUNT VERNON AND GRAND SALINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ALSO...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS WERE OVER NORTH PARTS OF THE REGION GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ATHENS TEXAS TO LAKE OF THE PINES TO HUTTIG ARKANSAS. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 46 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.