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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 5:30 PM CST for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 5, 1996, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1996, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:31 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Alba, TX | |
| Mar 5, 6:12 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Quitman, TX |
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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
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 Mar 5, 3:14 PM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 3:14 PM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 312 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996 SCT SHWRS AND TRW OCCURRING ACROSS CWA AT THIS TIME WITH STRONGEST ACTIVITY DEVLOPING IN NE TEXAS. SFC HEATING OVR EAST TEXAS AND SE OK IN COMBINATION WITH DEWPOINTS NEAR 65 IS SETTING UP CHNC OF SEVERE WX LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. INSTABILITY HAS INCREASED AHEAD OF COLD FRONT IN CENTRAL OK THROUGH WEST TEXAS AND DRYLINE OVER CENTRAL TEXAS. SHEAR EXPECTED TO INCREASE AS SHORT WAVE OVR WEST TEXAS APPROACHES AREA. ETA MODEL OF CHOICE WHIC SHOWS BEST PVA TO THE NORTH IN EASTERN OK AND LI'S -2 TO -3 OVR AREA. THE BEST INSTABILITY AND UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE IS NORTH AND EAST OF AREA. WITH MOISTURE IN PLACE AND INSTABILITY TO BE LI'S AT -4 AND PVA FROM NORTHERN LA AND WESTWARD. SHWR AND TRW ACTIVITY SHOULD INCREASE AS FRONT APPROACHES TMRW. STRONG VORT MAX BEHIND FRONT MAY PROLONG RAIN BEHIND FRONT AND STRONG CAA WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN THU. WE^NT CLOSER TO AVN AND NGM WITH HIGHS THU AND PRECIP WITH NGM. KEPT SKY COND MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH THU. . SHV 62/75/40/47 4560 09
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin | 32 min |
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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.