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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 407, NWS Shreveport, LA

October 17, 1996Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 17, 1996, 6:02 PM CDT for Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 58 min. 2 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
Oct 17, 1996, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Natchitoches Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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
Oct 17, 6:08 PM CDTHail 0.5Marthaville, LA
Oct 17, 6:10 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Marthaville, 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 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
Oct 17, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaldwell, Winn63 min
Oct 17, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie49 min
Oct 17, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River43 min
Oct 17, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward50 min
Oct 17, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSevier43 min
Oct 17, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River32 min
Oct 17, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward53 min
Oct 17, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead48 min
Oct 17, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.