Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Jan 23, 1997, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)

Expired

Jan 23, 1997, 8:45 PM CST

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

County De Soto Parish, LA

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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 240157 RRA
SVRSHV
LAC031-240245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
757 PM CST THU JAN 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA...
 
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...EASTERN DE SOTO PARISH
 
AT 755 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT CONTINUES TO INDICATE A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF STONEWALL TO 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANSFIELD. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE THE
EAST AT 40 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND LARGE HAIL ARE
LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO
PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR PROPERTY...SUCH AS YOUR CAR...BOAT...AND
PETS...FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
 
PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.
 
5/18

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 23, 7:45 PM CST, 12 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
745 PM CST THU JAN 23 1997

SVR WX RUNNING RAMPANT ACRS AREA THIS EVE. THOUGH STORMS ACRS MOST OF
REGION...WORST ACTIVITY APPEARS CONCENTRATED NR WARM FNT INDICATED STILL
JUST SOUTH OF A TYR-SHV-MLU LINE WHERE WINDS SHFT FM EAST TO SOUTH AND
DEWPOINTS JUMP INTO LWR/MID 60S. SHV SOUNDING INDICATES HELICITIES OF
3-400 ALG FNT DUE IN PART TO BNDRY LYR EAST FLOW. ALSO...K AND TT
INDECES STILL INCREASING TIL FROPA. ONLY GOOD NEWS IS THAT TOR THREAT
SHOULD DIMINISH AS WARM FNT ACCELERATES NORTH. HOWEVER...SVR THREAT
MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED PAST MIDNIGHT FOR AR/LA PORTIONS. LEWP HOLDING
TOGETHER IN NW LA AND EXPECT MORE SVR WX FM THAT. 3 HOUR FFG VALUES
GENERALLY 2-3 INCHES FM THIS MRNG AND AS 1-2 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN SVRL
AREAS...REPEAT ACTIVITY LIKELY RESULT IN SOME MINOR FLDG.

VII

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.