Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 283, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1997, 2:33 PM CDT for Bossier Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 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 28, 1997, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bossier Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2:39 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Plain Dealing, LA | Numerous trees and power lines were toppled along Old Plain Dealing Road. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 2687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 230 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 CONVECTION HAS DVLPD ACRS SE OK AND SW AR AHEAD OF S/WV MOVG ACRS OK/TX ATTM WHILE CONVECTION ACRS NW LA HAS DVLPD IN RESPONSE TO LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE...AS SEEN IN ADAP GRAPHICS. ALL THREE MODELS CONT TREND OF PUSHING S/WV OUT OF OK/TX SLOWLY TO THE E LATE TONIGHT. ALL THREE MOVE IT SLOW ENUF TO KEEP CHC PCPN ACRS AR AND LA THRU MIDDAY SUN. SRLY LOW LVL FLOW THRU THE PERIOD SHUD KEEP PLENTY OF MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AVAILABLE FOR SHWRS AND TSTMS THRU MIDDAY SUN. MODELS ALSO ALL AGREE IN BRINGING 250 TROF COMPLEETELY THRU THE AREA BY SUN AFTN... MAKING UPR LVL FLOW MORE NWLY. SHUD BE ENUF SUBSIDENCE WITH THIS TO LESSEN CHCS FOR PCPN BY LATE SUN AFTN AND INTO SUN NIGHT. STILL AGREE THAT CHC FOR SVR EXISTS ACRS MOST OF THE AREA...ESPECIALLY NRN SECTIONS INTO THE ERLY EVNG HOURS. WITH MID LVL WINDS INCREASING AND VEERING WITH APPROACH OF S/WV THIS AFTN AND EVNG MAY BE ENUF ROTATION TO PRODUCE SIG WINDS AND HAIL ACRS THE NRN PORTIONS OF THE CWA. FOR POPS WILL TREND CLOSER TO AVN THIS FCST AS NGM MSTR AND LIFT LOOKS TO BE UNDERDONE SOMEWHAT. EVEN USING AVN WILL HAVE TO UP POPS FOR THE EVNG. WILL STAY FAIRLY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE TEMPS. SHV 72/92/71/92 5411 MLU 73/92/72/92 6521 18
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-281600- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST OUT OF OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON AND CROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FOUR STATE REGION. AHEAD OF THIS DISTURBANCE A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS ALREADY IN PLACE. AS THE DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DUE TO THE STRENGTH OF THIS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ALSO...THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE AREA MAKING HEAVY RAINS A THREAT AS WELL. ACTIVATION OF SEVERE STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NEEDED DURING THE AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA. 18
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-281600- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST OUT OF OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON AND CROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FOUR STATE REGION. AHEAD OF THIS DISTURBANCE A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS ALREADY IN PLACE. AS THE DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DUE TO THE STRENGTH OF THIS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ALSO...THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE AREA MAKING HEAVY RAINS A THREAT AS WELL. ACTIVATION OF SEVERE STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NEEDED DURING THE AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA. 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.