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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 29, 1996LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1996, 8:53 PM CST for LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 52 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 29, 1996, 8:53 PM CST (02:53 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 1996, 9:45 PM CST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County LaSalle Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-03-30Temperature 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 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 Mar 29, 1:47 PM CST, 7 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 1:47 PM CST, 7 hours 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 8:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGrant46 min
Mar 30, 4:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVOuachita28 min
Mar 30, 3:45 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVLittle River60 min
Mar 30, 4:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSevier54 min
Mar 30, 4:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMiller50 min
Mar 30, 4:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward38 min
Mar 30, 4:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead56 min
Mar 30, 5:00 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVLafayette, Miller45 min
Mar 30, 5:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVColumbia, Nevada45 min
Mar 30, 5:33 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVColumbia42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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.