Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Feb 19, 1996, 11:52 AM CST (17:52 UTC)

Expired

Feb 19, 1996, 12:30 PM CST

In force

38 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

County Lincoln Parish, LA

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 191753
SVRSHV
LAC061-191830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1152 AM CST MON FEB 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...LINCOLN PARISH
 
AT 1152 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST OF DUBACH MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR Y4OUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 19, 9:07 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
907 AM CST MON FEB 19 1996

JUST GETTING A LOOK AT NEWEST ETA OUTPUT. NEW MODEL SEEMS TO BE ON TRACK
WITH LAST NITES RUN. AM A BIT CONCRNED HWVR WITH SPEED OF MVMNT OF S/WV
TO THE SE. NEW ETA TAKES VORT MAX FRM RED RVR VLY ALG TX/OK BDR INTO SRN
MS IN 12 HRS. THAT SEEMS A BIT QUICK. GENERALLY AGREE WITH IDEA OF MOVG
TO THE SE BUT AS STATED ABV FEEL TO FAST. W/V IMGRY SHWG PLENTY OF DRYING
ACRS E TX AND INTO NW LA WHILE HEAD DARKENING OCCURING ALG INTERFACE WITH
TSTMS ACRS SW AR. THESE STORMS ARE STARTING TO PROPAGATE SE INTO BTR LOW
LVL MSTR ACRS N CTRL LA AND S CNTRL AR AND SHUD CONT THRU LATE MRNG
IN FA BFR SHFTG EWD OUT OF FA BY ERLY AFTN. NO SIG CAA NOTED BHD S/WV
SO WILL LOOK FOR MUCH WARMER TEMPS BY TUE WITH PLENTY OF CLR SKIES ACRS
THE FA.

CLDS ERLY TDY SHUD CUT HIGH TEMPS SOME FROM FAN GUIDANCE SO WILL STICK
CLOSE TO MOS TEMPS. POPS LIKELY FOR ERN 1/2 OF FA THRU THE MRNG.

SHV 74/47/83 200

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.