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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 20, 1995Harrison County, Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1995, 12:39 AM CDT for Harrison County, Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 20, 1995, 12:39 AM CDT (05:39 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harrison County, TX, Rusk County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1543 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.2
Supercell composite
9.0

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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, 10:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-153-ARZ050-051-059-060-061-
070-071-072-LAZ001-002-003-004-005-010-012-013-018-019-021-017-
014-011-006-200430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1025 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

...TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR THE ARKLATEX...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AND PANOLA
COUNTY OF TEXAS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF NORTHEAST TEXAS
AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 200 AM CDT.

AT 1020 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SHREVEPORT
SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST LOUISIANA
NEAR KISATCHIE AND FLATWOODS OF SOUTHERN NATCHITOCHES PARISH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND
HEAVY RAINFALL.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED EAST OF DALLAS TEXAS AND
MAY MOVE INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS LATER TONIGHT.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 11:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-153-ARZ050-051-059-060-061-
070-071-072-LAZ001-002-003-004-005-010-012-013-018-019-021-017-
014-011-006-200530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1135 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AND PANOLA
COUNTY OF TEXAS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF NORTHEAST TEXAS
AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 200 AM CDT.

AT 1130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT SHREVEPORT
SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF WINNFIELD ON THE
NATCHITOCHES...WINN PARISH LINE.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF A PARIS...
TYLER TEXAS LINE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 12:16 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
OKZ077-TXZ097-112-126-137-138-150-151-153-ARZ050-051-059-060-061-
070-071-072-LAZ001-002-003-004-005-010-012-013-018-019-021-017-
014-011-006-200615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1216 AM CDT THU APR 20 1995

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE ARKLATEX...

AT 1210 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF
A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM HAWORTH OKLAHOMA TO MT PLEASANT...
GLADEWATER AND PALESTINE TEXAS.  THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35
MPH.

THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF
GLADEWATER TO LAKE PALESTINE.  THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND WINDS OF 40 TO
50 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM FOR MOST OF THE ARKLATEX.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Caddo48 min
Apr 20, 2:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVClaiborne54 min
Apr 20, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion68 min
Apr 20, 4:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, Red River64 min
Apr 20, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVJackson66 min
Apr 20, 9:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWinn59 min
Apr 20, 12:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto, Sabine41 min
Apr 20, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine54 min
Apr 20, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVOuachita54 min
Apr 20, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVOuachita36 min
Apr 20, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches42 min
Apr 20, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVOuachita27 min
Apr 20, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWinn44 min
Apr 20, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Caddo24 min
Apr 20, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaldwell45 min
Apr 20, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine50 min
Apr 20, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto, Natchitoches, Red River43 min
Apr 20, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, Jackson, Winn48 min
Apr 19, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBowie, Cass52 min
Apr 20, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMarion51 min
Apr 20, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPanola, Rusk53 min
Apr 20, 3:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby56 min
Apr 20, 3:19 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVPanola56 min
Apr 20, 3:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby68 min
Apr 20, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg, Harrison47 min
Apr 20, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison46 min
Apr 19, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSevier43 min
Apr 19, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward44 min
Apr 19, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMiller43 min
Apr 19, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHempstead44 min
Apr 19, 9:07 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVNevada53 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.