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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 13, 1997Wood County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 10:13 PM CDT for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 13, 1997, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 10:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Mineola, TX

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 3531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 Jun 13, 8:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 8:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
823 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

ONLY NEED TO MAKE COSEMTIC CHANGES TO GOING FCSTS THIS EVNG AS CONVECTION
CONTS TO DROP SLOWLY SE ACRS NE TX AND INTO SW AR AND NRN LA. WILL
LIKELY NEED TO ADJUST LOW TEMPS THOUGH WHERE  RAIN FALLS THIS EVNG INTO
THE UPR 60S TO NEAR 70.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
905 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0850 PM    MARSHALL                  TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   HARRISON                       HAIL REPORTED IN SOUTH PART
                                          OF TOWN.

0851 PM    MARSHALL                  TX   1.00 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN
06/13/97   HARRISON                       THE NORTHEAST PART OF TOWN.

0855 PM    WASKOM                    TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   HARRISON

0820 PM    PLAIN DEALING             LA   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97   BOSSIER                        TREES
DOWN ALONG HWY 3
                                          IN TOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:18 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:40 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:49 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:50 PM CDT, 23 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
Jun 13, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	58 min
Jun 13, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Marion	44 min
Jun 13, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	52 min
Jun 13, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	67 min
Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Wood	46 min
Jun 13, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	28 min
Jun 13, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	62 min
Jun 13, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	57 min
Jun 13, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	28 min
Jun 13, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	57 min
Jun 13, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	62 min
Jun 13, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	59 min
Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville	55 min
Jun 13, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson	64 min
Jun 13, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Winn	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.