Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 23, 1997, 4:07 PM CST for Panola County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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
- Jan 23, 1997, 4:07 PM CST (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 1997, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Panola County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jan 23, 3:00 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 3:00 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 300 PM CST THU JAN 23 1997 AREA RW/TSTMS ASSOC WITH NORTH MOVG WARM FNT WILL CONT ACRS NE TX/SW AR. WIDELY SCT BUT PSBL MORE INTENSE TSTM ACTIVITY REDEVELOP MID AFTN INTO EAST TX/CNTRL LA. CONVECTION EXPECTED TO CONT AS VERY UNSTABLE AIR PROGGED ACRS THESE SOUTHERN AREAS TIL FROPA LATE TONIGHT. COOLING MID LVL TEMPS...DRYING ALOFT...AND TT VALUES AOA 50 INDICATE A SVR THREAT... MAINLY FOR HAIL. RAPID DRYING BEHIND FNT SHOULD YIELD A MOSTLY SUNNY SKY BY FRI AFTN. ETA AND NGM GRIDDED DATA IN GOOD AGREEMENT BUT FAN TEMPS RUNNING COOLER THAN FWC. WILL GO WITH WARMER FWC AS HIGH MOSTLY PAC BASED ARMS AND POST FNTL WINDS WESTERLY BEHIND N-S ORIENTED FNT. SHV 52/70/40/64 7100 MLU 53/71/44/61 8400 VII
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 44 min |
| Jan 23, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 50 min |
| Jan 23, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.