Tornado Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Jan 23, 1996, 2:52 PM CST (20:52 UTC)

Expired

Jan 23, 1996, 3:30 PM CST

In force

38 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

County Bossier Parish, LA

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 232053
TORSHV
LAC015-232130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
252 PM CST TUE JAN 23 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BOSSIER PARISH
 
AT 250 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE A
TORNADO 8 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF THE AIRPORT IN SHREVEPORT. THIS
TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY A STATE TROOPER NEAR ELLERBE ROAD SOUTH OF
FLOURNOY LUCAS RD MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
 
 
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NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jan 23, 2:30 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
230 PM CST TUE JAN 23 1996

COLDFRONT CURRENTLY NEAR A DEQUEEN AR TO TYLER TX LINE. TORNADO WATCH
RECENTLY ISSUED FOR ALL NORTH LA AND MUCH OF EAST TEXAS. HIGH SHEAR
AND LOW CAPES WILL RESULT IN FAST MOVING STORMS WITH PRIMARY THREAT
BEING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WITH JUST ENOUGH VEERING FOR
POSSIBLE TORNADOES. SO FAR ONLY WEAK MESOCYCLONE DETECTION ON 88D BUT
WITH MAIN PVA STILL WELL WEST INTO TEXAS THINGS COULD STILL BECOME
MORE ACTIVE. AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE EXPECT TEMPS TO DROP RAPIDLY ALONG
WITH CLEARING SKIES...INDICATED BY EXTREMELY SHARP DEW POINT GRADIENT.
SOUTHERLY FLOW TO RETURN BY WED NIGHT SO DO NOT EXPECT LOWS TO QUITE
`BOTTOM OUT`. THEREFORE...EXPECT LOWS TO BE IN OR NEAR THE 30S AREAWIDE
FOR NEXT TWO NIGHTS. RETURN FLOW TO BECOME RATHER STRONG BUT WITHOUT
AN IMMEDIATE MOISTURE TRANSPORT SO THURSDAY WILL BECOME RATHER WARM
AND DRY.

SHV 35/54/31/64 4000
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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.