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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 30, 1996Sevier County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1996, 4:06 PM CST for Sevier County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 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 30, 1996, 4:06 PM CST (22:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 1996, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Sevier County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 30, 2:42 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:42 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
140 PM CST SAT MAR 30 1996

FORECAST FOR SVR WX REMAINDER OF AFTN AND EARLY EVE CUD BE IFFY WITH
DRY LINE MOVING IN FROM WEST AND DRY AIR ALOFT AHEAD OF DRY LINE.
850 WINDS PROGGED TO SHIFT TO WEST EXCEPT OK AND AR PORTIONS WITH
WINDS SSW. DRY LINE CURRENTLY OVER PARIS AND TYLER. IF LINE CAN
DECELLERATE...COLD FRONT MAY INTERACT AND CREATE SUFF LIFT EVEN WITH
JET DYNAMICS ALL NORTH AND( EAST. NGM DOES NOT EVEN SHOW LIFT WITH
FRONT SO MAY NEED TO DISCARD THAT ONE ALTOGETHER. COLD AIR SHALLOW
SO WILL NOT GET THE BIG FREEZES AFTER THIS SYSTEM. MODEL TEMPS CONSST
1ST THREE PERIODS WILL GO WITH THAT.

SHV 53/70/44/73

VII

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	LaSalle	52 min
Mar 29, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant	46 min
Mar 30, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	28 min
Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Little River	60 min
Mar 30, 4:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	50 min
Mar 30, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard	38 min
Mar 30, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	56 min
Mar 30, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Lafayette, Miller	45 min
Mar 30, 5:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Nevada	45 min
Mar 30, 5:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Columbia	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 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.