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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 7, 1996Bienville Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1996, 3:32 PM CDT for Bienville Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min. 3 reports 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 7, 1996, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Bienville Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 7, 4:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Bienville, LA
Jun 7, 4:10 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Bienville, LA
Jun 7, 4:15 PM CDTHail 0.88Bienville, LA

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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 280 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1740 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1996-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
1740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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 7, 9:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 9:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLincoln65 min
Jun 7, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVJackson61 min
Jun 7, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVOuachita64 min
Jun 6, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River61 min
Jun 6, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMorris, Titus35 min
Jun 7, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWood67 min
Jun 7, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCamp61 min
Jun 7, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUpshur59 min
Jun 7, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCass52 min
Jun 7, 5:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVCass3 hr
Jun 6, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward55 min
Jun 6, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River, Sevier65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.