Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 418, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT for Grant Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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 18, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 1996, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 12:28 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Fishville, 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 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 1290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1209 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 59 min |
| Oct 17, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 49 min |
| Oct 17, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Webster | 40 min |
| Oct 17, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 40 min |
| Oct 17, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Winn | 50 min |
| Oct 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 45 min |
| Oct 17, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 44 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.