Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 11:09 PM CDT for San Augustine County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 16, 1997, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Augustine County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 11:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | San Augustine, 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 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 2912 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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 16, 8:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 8:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 827 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 CONVECTION CONTS DVLPG TO THE W AND N OF THE CWA THIS EVNG WHERE ADAP GRAPHICS INDICATE BEST MSTR CONVERGENCE AND LOWEST LIS. SOME ACTIVITY TRYING TO DVLP ACRS EXTREME SRN PORTIONS OF CWA...BUT THIS SHUD RMN BLO SVR CRITERIA AS BEST INSTABILITY STILL W OF THE AREA. LOW LVL SRLY FLOW SHUD INCREASE ACRS THE AREA TONIGHT AS WEAK FNTL BOUNDARY OVER NW TX STARTS TO EDGE EWD. CONVECTION SHUD CONT MOVG TO THE E WITH MORE DVLPMT EXPECTED ACRS E TX WHERE INSTABILITY WILL LIKELY BE GREATEST JUST ARND MIDNIGHT. DONT SEE ANY NEED TO CHANGE GOING FCSTS. FFA ACRS E TX STILL LOOKS GUD AND MAY NEED TO LOOK AT ISSUING FOR LIT. 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Wood | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin | 25 min |
| Jun 17, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Titus | 40 min |
| Jun 17, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith, Wood | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Morris | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur | 67 min |
| Jun 17, 2:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Camp, Morris, Titus, Wood | 4 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 63 min |
| Jun 17, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 6:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina | 68 min |
| Jun 17, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 69 min |
| Jun 17, 5:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Winn | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell | 63 min |
| Jun 17, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Winn | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 2:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 4 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 54 min |
| Jun 17, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 40 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.