Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1995, 8:31 PM CDT for Hempstead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hempstead County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Fulton, AR | An F0 tornado touched down briefly and caused no damage. |
| Apr 19, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Fulton, AR | Tornado reported by state police touched down briefly. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 200131 TORSHV ARC057-200215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 831 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ...HEMPSTEAD COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE...POSSIBLY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN MILLER COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AND STRONG...DAMAGING WINDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE TEXARKANA AREA IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS STORM. THE TOWN OF FULTON IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. PERSONS IN FULTON SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. & NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 2:31 PM CDT, 6 hours 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, 5 hours 58 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, 3 hours 21 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, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Miller | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nevada | 53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.