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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Shreveport, LA

July 4, 1996Smith County, Wood County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1996, 2:20 PM CDT for Smith County, Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
Jul 4, 1996, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1996, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Smith County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 340 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1867 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
1867 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVAngelina65 min
Jul 4, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRusk59 min
Jul 4, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNacogdoches68 min
Jul 4, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith66 min
Jul 4, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVFranklin64 min
Jul 4, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWood61 min
Jul 4, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPanola, Shelby56 min
Jul 4, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee65 min
Jul 4, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCamp, Upshur60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.