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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 344, NWS Shreveport, LA

September 9, 1997De Soto Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1997, 7:39 PM CDT for De Soto Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 1997, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 9, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County De Soto Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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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, 3:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 3:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
315 PM CDT TUE SEP 9 1997

CDFNT NOW NR A TYR-VIVIAN-HOT LINE. STG WIDELY SCT TSTMS FIRING TOLEDO
BEND VCNTY OF EXTREME EAST TX WITH SFC ANALYSIS SUGGEST LOW CENTER NR
FNT. MORE RECENT CONVECTION NOW DEVELOPING ALG TX/OK/AR BRDRS...WHICH
APPEARS SLIGHTLY POST FNTL. LDS ALSO HAS NMRS CLD-GRND STROKES EAST TX.
MID LVL CONVERGENCE AND HIGH VILS WITH STORMS. WILL WATCH FOR FURTHER
TRENDS ON DECIDING EVE POPS. NGM/ETA SIMILAR WITH FROPA WHICH MAY BE
A BIT AHEAD OF REALITY. AT ANY RATE...FNT SHUD BE WELL THRU CWA BY
SUNRISE. AFT A FEW HOUR POST FNTL CLD LAG...SKIES WILL BECOME MOSTLY
CLR BY OR BEFORE MIDDAY WED AND RMN THAT WAY THRU FCST PERIOD. ETA A
LITTLE COOLER ON 850 TEMPS LTR IN PERIOD SO WILL COMPROMISE BASICALLY
BY KNOCKING A CAT OR SO OFF FWC TEMPS. OF COURSE...FAN TEMPS ARE `OUT
THERE`. LOOKING FORWARD TO WX CHANGE.

SHV 68/88/58/86  1000           MLU 68/87/57/84  20x00

VII

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 9, 6:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 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
Sep 9, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.