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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 357, NWS Shreveport, LA

October 24, 1997Sabine County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 1997, 1:36 AM CDT for Sabine County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Oct 24, 1997, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 1997, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Sabine County, TX

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 23, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Oct 24, 12:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 23, 8:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 8:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
825 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

WITH DRY AIR BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS WILL NEED TO
DROP FFA FOR PARTS OF E TX FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT. RAIN COOLED AIR
OVER PARTS OF SRN AR AND NRN LA SHUD SPELL AN END TO CHC SVR N OF A
LINE FROM MANSFIELD LA TO COLUMBIA LA. WILL NEED TO LOOK AT REDUCING
POPS ACRS EXTREME NE TX AS WELL WITH MOST ACTIVITY SHIFTING TO THE S
OF THIS AREA. WILL ALSO NEED TO LOOK AT TRIMMING POPS A LITTLE FOR
EXTREME SW AR. FOR OTHER LOCATIONS WILL NEED TO KEEP POPS UP BUT REDUCE
LATE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 23, 10:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 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
Oct 23, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Shelby	40 min
Oct 23, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	40 min
Oct 23, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	45 min
Oct 23, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk	51 min
Oct 23, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	48 min
Oct 23, 10:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Shelby	2 hr
Oct 23, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	52 min
Oct 23, 11:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	San Augustine	27 min
Oct 23, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	40 min
Oct 23, 10:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	35 min
Oct 23, 11:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.