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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 17, 1996Columbia County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 6:45 PM CST for Columbia County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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 17, 1996, 6:45 PM CST (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Mar 17, 1996, 7:30 PM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Columbia County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 344 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 811 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -58 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-1.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 6:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine34 min
Mar 17, 7:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaddo37 min
Mar 17, 8:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaddo42 min
Mar 17, 8:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier50 min
Mar 18, 5:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine52 min
Mar 18, 6:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches56 min
Mar 18, 6:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWinn65 min
Mar 18, 7:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGrant47 min
Mar 18, 7:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto53 min
Mar 18, 7:43 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLaSalle47 min
Mar 18, 11:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion25 min
Mar 17, 6:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMarion52 min
Mar 17, 6:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith31 min
Mar 17, 7:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison, Marion39 min
Mar 18, 4:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVAngelina42 min
Mar 18, 5:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby28 min
Mar 18, 5:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNacogdoches52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 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.