Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 4:18 PM CST for Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 42 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 17, 1996, 4:18 PM CST (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1996, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Natchitoches Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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 17, 4:22 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Provencal, 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto, Sabine | 55 min |
| Mar 17, 4:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Wood | 66 min |
| Mar 17, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 5:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.