Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 474, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 1996, 3:55 PM CST for Sabine Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 50 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
- Nov 24, 1996, 3:55 PM CST (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 1996, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sabine Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 4:16 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Florien, 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 24, 2:10 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 24, 2:10 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 210 PM CST SUN NOV 24 1996 UNABLE TO RETRIEVE PCGRIDDS OR GEMPAK THIS AFTN SO HAVE TO RELY ON AFOS GRAPHICS FOR MODEL DATA. ALL THREE MODELS DVLP A SIMILAR SOLUTION THRU THE FCST PERIOD WITH ONLY A FEW MINOR POSITION AND TIMING ERRORS. AM A BIT SURPRISED THAT ETA IS MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH PULLING MID LVL CIRCULATION TO THE N THAN NGM. THIS IS NGMS NORMAL BIAS. AVN IS...AS USUAL...THE SLOWER OF THE THREE BUT NOT BY MUCH. MID/UPR LVL CIRCULATION OVR S TX VERY EVIDENT IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY THIS AFTN WITH DRY SLOT/VORT LOBE ALSO EVIDENT MOVG TO THE NE ACRS E TX ATTM. MODELS PICKED THIS UP AS THEY MOV CIRCULATION ARND THE BASE OF THE TROF AS JET MAX PULLS TO THE ENE AS WELL. AFTER JET MAX PULLS OUT OF AREA ERLY MON MRNG...UPR LVL TROF SHUD BGN TO FILL RAPIDLY AND MOV NE...BECOMING PART OF BROAD FLAT ERN U.S. TROF BY ERLY TUE. WRAP ARND MSTR IS SUFFICIENT TO CONT PCPN OVER MUCH OF THE CWA INTO MIDDAY MON BEFORE PREVIOUSLY MENTION UPR LVL TROF PASSES TO THE E AND PCPN ENDS. R LIKELY TO LESSEN IN INTENSITY THRU THE NIGHT...HWVR... AS FIRST VORT LOBE IS MOVG OVER AREA NOW AND MAIN VORT LOBE LIKELY TO EJECT OUT OF TROF ACRS SRN AND ERN PORTIONS OF CWA LATE TONIGHT AND ERLY MON. AM CONCERNED ABOUT AMT OF LOW LVL COLD AIR COMING INTO NRN AND NW PORTIONS OF THE CWA TONIGHT. TEMPS ALRDY IN THE LOW 30S ACRS PARTS OF ERN AND SRN OK AND INTO THE UPR 30S IN TX E OF DFW. FILL BEST CHCS FOR FREEZING OR MIX WILL BE ACRS EXTREME SE OK...EXTREME SW AR N OF TXK AND AREAS OF NE TX N OF A LINE FROM FROM ABOUT QUITMAN TO NEW BOSTON. SE OK AREA MOST LIKELY TO SEE ACCUMULATIONS BUT THESE WUD LIKELY BE LIGHT. RECOMMEND CONTINUING WINTER WEATHER WATCH SE OK WITH POSSIBLE ADVISORY EXTREME NE TX AND EXTREME SW AR. FOR REST OF THE AREA SHUD RMN A COLD RAIN AFTER FROPA. WILL STAY CLOSE TO AVN AND NGM MOS GUIDANCE FOR POPS AND TEMPS THIS FCST PERIOD AS BOTH PROVIDE REASON ABLE NUMBERS. SHV 41/43/34/50 +720 MLU 47/49/36/50 9841 18
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 9:56 AM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 65 min |
| Nov 24, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 7:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Franklin, Wood | 4 hr |
| Nov 24, 7:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Red River, Titus | 4 hr |
| Nov 24, 9:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 3 hr |
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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.