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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 4, 1996Hempstead County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 10:54 PM CDT for Hempstead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1996, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Hempstead County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 4, 11:10 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Hope, AR

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1501 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1501 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 4, 8:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
830 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996

STORMS ARE DECREASING WITH THE SETTING OF THE SUN EXCEPT OVER SOUTHWEST
AR. PROBABLY NEED TO LOWER POPS A LITTLE hAND WORD LATE ON STORMS...AS
STORMS ARE INCREASING ACROSS NORTHERN OK AND SOUTHERN KANSAS AND SHOULD
MOVE SOUTHEAST IN NORTHWEST FLOW INTO CWA LATER TONIGHT. REMAINDER OF
FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 11:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVHempstead3 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.