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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 20, 1995Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 1995, 2:09 PM CDT for Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 20, 1995, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Ouachita Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 12:00Z on 1995-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 40 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-299 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 201909
TORSHV
LAC073-201945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
209 PM CDT THU APR 20 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...OUACHITA PARISH
 
SHREVEPORT AND JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
JUST SOUTHWEST OF MONROE LOUISIANA MOVING TO TH<E NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH.
PERSONS IN AND NEAR MONROE SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
 
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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, 2:33 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

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.