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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 30, 1997Columbia County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1997, 8:46 PM CDT for Columbia County, Arkansas. It was in force for 59 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 30, 1997, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Columbia County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 30, 2:28 PM CDT, 6 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:28 PM CDT, 6 hours 18 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	55 min
May 30, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	68 min
May 30, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches	55 min
May 30, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina	69 min
May 30, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	56 min
May 30, 9:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Union	3 hr
May 30, 9:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Union	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.