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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 5, 1996Red River County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 8:14 PM CST for Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
Mar 5, 1996, 8:14 PM CST (02:14 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 1996, 8:45 PM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Red River County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 1996-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1268 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 1996-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 231 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
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, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 3:14 PM CST, 5 hours 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, 2 hours 12 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 2:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaddo62 min
Mar 6, 2:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier57 min
Mar 6, 2:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWebster65 min
Mar 6, 3:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVClaiborne69 min
Mar 5, 6:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie33 min
Mar 5, 6:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVTitus29 min
Mar 5, 9:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie50 min
Mar 6, 12:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith25 min
Mar 6, 1:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg44 min
Mar 6, 1:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison65 min
Mar 5, 6:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River44 min
Mar 5, 9:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River40 min
Mar 5, 10:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead49 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.