Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 303, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1997, 8:28 AM CDT for Hempstead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 15, 1997, 8:28 AM CDT (13:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1997, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hempstead County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Spring Hill, AR | Numerous trees and powerlines down. |
| Jul 15, 9:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Hope, AR | Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped across the southeast portions of town. Four vehicles were crushed and several homes were damaged in the Plainview and Gunter subdivisions. Trees were also uprooted on CR50, 116, 117, 132 and Hwy 4. A moving truck was |
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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 352 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 40 min |
| Jul 15, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Jul 15, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1997Every 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.