Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1996, 6:28 PM CST for Nevada County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1996, 6:28 PM CST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1996, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nevada County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
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.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 30, 2:42 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:42 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 140 PM CST SAT MAR 30 1996 FORECAST FOR SVR WX REMAINDER OF AFTN AND EARLY EVE CUD BE IFFY WITH DRY LINE MOVING IN FROM WEST AND DRY AIR ALOFT AHEAD OF DRY LINE. 850 WINDS PROGGED TO SHIFT TO WEST EXCEPT OK AND AR PORTIONS WITH WINDS SSW. DRY LINE CURRENTLY OVER PARIS AND TYLER. IF LINE CAN DECELLERATE...COLD FRONT MAY INTERACT AND CREATE SUFF LIFT EVEN WITH JET DYNAMICS ALL NORTH AND( EAST. NGM DOES NOT EVEN SHOW LIFT WITH FRONT SO MAY NEED TO DISCARD THAT ONE ALTOGETHER. COLD AIR SHALLOW SO WILL NOT GET THE BIG FREEZES AFTER THIS SYSTEM. MODEL TEMPS CONSST 1ST THREE PERIODS WILL GO WITH THAT. SHV 53/70/44/73 VII
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 7:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 6:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.