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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Shreveport, LA

January 23, 1996Caddo Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 23, 1996, 1:47 PM CST for Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 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: Jan 23, 1996, 1:47 PM CST (19:47 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 1996, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Caddo Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 438 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 440 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jan 23, 9:44 AM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 9:44 AM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 2:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo	31 min
Jan 23, 2:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier	38 min
Jan 23, 3:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto	27 min
Jan 23, 3:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	43 min
Jan 23, 3:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne	35 min
Jan 23, 3:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	32 min
Jan 23, 4:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	52 min
Jan 23, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	40 min
Jan 23, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	37 min
Jan 23, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Union	45 min
Jan 23, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	48 min
Jan 23, 3:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	40 min
Jan 23, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1996 Every 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.