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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 27, 1997Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 2:15 PM CDT for Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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: May 27, 1997, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1997, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Rusk County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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
May 27, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 1358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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 May 27, 9:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 9:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 12:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE SHREVEPORT LA
1235 PM CDT THU MAY 27 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH LOCATION....

1233 PM    CARTHAGE                  TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   PANOLA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	64 min
May 27, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	62 min
May 27, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	43 min
May 27, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	44 min
May 27, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	62 min
May 27, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	28 min
May 27, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Marion	52 min
May 27, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	48 min
May 27, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	46 min
May 27, 4:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Harrison	3 hr
May 27, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	53 min
May 27, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	59 min
May 27, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	59 min
May 27, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	54 min
May 27, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	54 min
May 27, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	45 min
May 27, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	61 min
May 27, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	48 min
May 27, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	50 min
May 27, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville	67 min
May 27, 2:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier	55 min
May 27, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	58 min
May 27, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	61 min
May 27, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	69 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.