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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 14, 1996Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1996, 11:47 AM CDT for Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 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
Apr 14, 1996, 11:47 AM CDT (16:47 UTC)
Expired
Apr 14, 1996, 12:45 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 1996-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1435 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 1996-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-237 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 14, 10:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 10:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 10:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine62 min
Apr 14, 10:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches, Red River62 min
Apr 14, 11:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVOuachita64 min
Apr 14, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaldwell46 min
Apr 14, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto, Red River65 min
Apr 14, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine68 min
Apr 14, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville63 min
Apr 14, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto62 min
Apr 14, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVSabine63 min
Apr 14, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWebster37 min
Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVClaiborne, Lincoln64 min
Apr 14, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River51 min
Apr 14, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Caddo39 min
Apr 14, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto37 min
Apr 14, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches59 min
Apr 14, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine27 min
Apr 14, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River27 min
Apr 14, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine53 min
Apr 14, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby40 min
Apr 14, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVShelby42 min
Apr 14, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby30 min
Apr 14, 1:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River, Sevier43 min
Apr 14, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward63 min
Apr 14, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead29 min
Apr 14, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia44 min
Apr 14, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion56 min
Apr 14, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia29 min
Apr 14, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.