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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1996, 12:20 PM CST for Franklin County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- Feb 27, 1996, 12:20 PM CST (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1996, 12:45 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 799 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
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 Feb 27, 9:40 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 9:40 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 940 AM CST TUE FEB 27 1996 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BEGINNING TO PICK UP ACROSS NE TX AND SE OK. 88D INDICATING RAINFALL OVER 1/2 INCH PER HOUR SE OK...AND ARE ASSOCIATED WITH COLD FRONT. FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH CWA AND CLEAR AREA AROUND MIDNIGHT. ENTIRE CWA ALSO UNDER SLIGHT RISK OF SVR. WILL KEEP CLOSE EYE OUT FOR STORMS ALONG FRONTAL ZONE AS WELL AS AREAS WITH BREAKS IN CLOUDS...ESPECIALLY WHERE TEMPERATURES REACH NEAR 80. VII
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 3:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 37 min |
| Feb 27, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 35 min |
| Feb 27, 10:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 37 min |
| Feb 27, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Red River | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 31 min |
| Feb 27, 12:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Titus | 31 min |
| Feb 27, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Smith | 53 min |
| Feb 27, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 3:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Marion | 35 min |
| Feb 27, 12:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 12:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 31 min |
| Feb 27, 12:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 1:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Nevada | 11 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.