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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 5, 1996Little River County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 6:31 PM CST for Little River County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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: Mar 5, 1996, 6:31 PM CST (00:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1996, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Little River County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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, 7:00 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Ashdown, AR

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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 9.3

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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, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 3:14 PM CST, 3 hours 17 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.
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SHV 62/75/40/47 4560

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 5, 6:02 PM CST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE SHREVEPORT LA
555 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH LOCATION....

P0531 PM    ALBA                      TX   .88 INCH HAIL
03/05/96   WOOD

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	62 min
Mar 6, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	57 min
Mar 6, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	65 min
Mar 6, 3:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne	69 min
Mar 5, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	33 min
Mar 5, 6:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Titus	29 min
Mar 5, 8:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	31 min
Mar 5, 9:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	50 min
Mar 6, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	25 min
Mar 6, 1:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	44 min
Mar 6, 1:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	65 min
Mar 5, 9:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River	40 min
Mar 5, 10:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.