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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 30, 1996Columbia County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 1996, 6:14 PM CST for Columbia County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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, 6:14 PM CST (00:14 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 1996, 6:45 PM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Columbia County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2252 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 1996-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
2252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
7.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 310015
TORSHV
ARC027-310045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
614 PM CST SAT MAR 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...COLUMBIA COUNTY
 
AT 613 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A
TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MAGNOLIA MOVING TO THE EAST
AT 30 MPH.
 
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH& OR LOW SPOT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 6:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion66 min
Mar 30, 6:26 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVUnion64 min
Mar 30, 6:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNevada47 min
Mar 30, 7:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion30 min
Mar 30, 8:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion65 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes 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.