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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 24, 1996Bowie County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1996, 6:31 PM CST for Bowie County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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 24, 1996, 6:31 PM CST (00:31 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1996, 7:00 PM CST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Bowie County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 24, 6:50 PM CSTHail 0.75New Boston, TX

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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 337 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -168 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1855 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 10:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Caddo59 min
Mar 24, 10:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWebster25 min
Mar 24, 6:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River, Titus35 min
Mar 24, 8:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee49 min
Mar 24, 8:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRusk61 min
Mar 24, 9:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPanola61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.