Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1996, 8:47 PM CDT for LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 43 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, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County LaSalle Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 1868 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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, 3:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 3:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 340 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM LOW OVER SW MO SOUTH THROUGH W AR AND E TX APPROACHING W LA AND A DRY LINE WEST OF THE FRONT FROM E OK SOUTH TO NEAR TYR/GGG AND LFK TX. ATM VERY UNSTABLE BUT LOOKS AS IF DEVELOPMENT WILL BE GENERALLY SE OF A LINE FROM NEAR MAGNOLIA AR TO MINDEN AND LOGANSPORT LA AND LUFKIN TX. WILL SUGGEST TO REMOVE WATCH AFTER 500 PM FOR THIS AREA TO THE WEST OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED LINE. WILL LEAVE SMALL POPS IN FOR NW LA (IE SHV) FOR TNT DUE TO APPROACH OF DRY AIR AND FRONT WILL KEEP POPS HIER SE OF LINE AND KEEP SVR MENTIONED. WINDS TO SHIFT TO WEST AND RANGE AROUND 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 25 MPH. CLOUDS WILL DECREASE DURING THE NIGHT BUT WRAP AROUND MOISTURE MAY RETURN BRIEF CLOUDINESS LATE TNT OR EARLY MON AM. REMAINDER OF FCST PERIOD SHOULD REMAIN FAIR AND DRY AND A LITTLE COOLER. SHV 51/67/48/75 2000 SIX
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 14, 4:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE SHREVEPORT LA
415 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH LOCATION....
0412 PM 10 S CENTER TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96 SHELBY KSHV 88D VIL 68 KG/M2
THIS CELL.
SIXThe office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Winn | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant | 68 min |
| Apr 14, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant | 47 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.