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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 461, NWS Shreveport, LA

November 7, 1996Panola County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 3:42 AM CST for Panola County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
Nov 7, 1996, 3:42 AM CST (09:42 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1996, 4:45 AM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Panola County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 358 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 245 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.8

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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 Nov 6, 3:24 PM CST, 12 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 3:24 PM CST, 12 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 4:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Caddo63 min
Nov 7, 4:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto57 min
Nov 7, 4:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWebster57 min
Nov 7, 5:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier42 min
Nov 7, 5:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVClaiborne68 min
Nov 7, 5:35 AM CSTTornado WarningSHVRed River40 min
Nov 7, 5:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion65 min
Nov 7, 5:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville55 min
Nov 7, 2:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith, Upshur67 min
Nov 7, 2:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee67 min
Nov 7, 3:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg, Rusk57 min
Nov 7, 3:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie, Cass66 min
Nov 7, 3:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison, Marion65 min
Nov 7, 3:42 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNacogdoches63 min
Nov 7, 3:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVAngelina40 min
Nov 7, 3:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSan Augustine, Shelby63 min
Nov 7, 3:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead, Lafayette, Nevada67 min
Nov 7, 4:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia57 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.