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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Shreveport, LA

January 23, 1996De Soto Parish, Louisiana; Panola County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 23, 1996, 3:33 PM CST for De Soto Parish, Louisiana; Panola County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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: Jan 23, 1996, 3:33 PM CST (21:33 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 1996, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties De Soto Parish, LA, Panola County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 23, 3:36 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Logansport, LA

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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 438 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 440 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 232137 COR
TORSHV
LAC031-TXC365-232200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION TO DIRECTION FROM DE BERRY...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
333 PM CST TUE JAN 23 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

   ...NORTHWESTERN DE SOTO PARISH


IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

   ...SOUTHEASTERN PANOLA COUNTY

AT 330 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF DE BERRY IN SOUTHEAST PANOLA COUNTY
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN KEATCHIE
AND SPRING RIDGE.

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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jan 23, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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
VII

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 1:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	28 min
Jan 23, 2:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo	31 min
Jan 23, 2:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier	38 min
Jan 23, 3:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	43 min
Jan 23, 3:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne	35 min
Jan 23, 3:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	32 min
Jan 23, 4:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	52 min
Jan 23, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	40 min
Jan 23, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	37 min
Jan 23, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Union	45 min
Jan 23, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	48 min
Jan 23, 3:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	40 min
Jan 23, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	43 min

Nearby

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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.