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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Shreveport, LA

September 9, 1997Angelina County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1997, 2:56 PM CDT for Angelina County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
Sep 9, 1997, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Angelina County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 9, 3:15 PM CDTHail 0.75Diboll, 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 nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1997-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1930 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1997-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1930 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
2.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Sep 9, 10:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 10:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 9, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 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>167-081630-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1000 AM CDT TUE SEP 9 1997

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THIS FNT WILL RESULT IN A GOOD
POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON
OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...
AND ESPECIALLY NORTHEAST TEXAS. LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY
EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO EAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL
LOUISIANA. STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY STRONG
GUSTY WINDS. LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES REMAIN A REMOTE
POSSIBILITY AS WELL.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AND
HAM RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY INTO
EARLY EVENING.
VII
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 10:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 41 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>167-081630-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1000 AM CDT TUE SEP 9 1997

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THIS FNT WILL RESULT IN A GOOD
POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON
OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...
AND ESPECIALLY NORTHEAST TEXAS. LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY
EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO EAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL
LOUISIANA. STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY STRONG
GUSTY WINDS. LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES REMAIN A REMOTE
POSSIBILITY AS WELL.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AND
HAM RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY INTO
EARLY EVENING.
VII
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 10:23 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>167-091630-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1000 AM CDT TUE SEP 9 1997

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THIS FNT WILL RESULT IN A GOOD
POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON
OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...
AND ESPECIALLY NORTHEAST TEXAS. LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY
EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO EAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL
LOUISIANA. STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY STRONG
GUSTY WIND*S. LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES REMAIN A REMOTE
POSSIBILITY AS WELL.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AND
HAM RADIO OPERATORS MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY INTO
EARLY EVENING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby39 min
Sep 9, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee52 min
Sep 9, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine, San Augustine43 min
Sep 9, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMorris64 min
Sep 9, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRusk35 min
Sep 9, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine35 min
Sep 9, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNacogdoches65 min
Sep 9, 8:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVOuachita61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.