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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 29, 1996Columbia County, Union County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 4:47 AM CDT for Columbia County, Union County, Arkansas. 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
May 29, 1996, 4:47 AM CDT (09:47 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1996, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, AR, Union County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 282 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 581 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWebster28 min
May 28, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVClaiborne59 min
May 28, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion66 min
May 28, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLincoln51 min
May 29, 9:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville66 min
May 29, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto67 min
May 29, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie62 min
May 29, 7:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCass54 min
May 29, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby56 min
May 29, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRusk55 min
May 29, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNacogdoches65 min
May 29, 7:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMiller63 min
May 29, 7:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLafayette, Miller42 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.