Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1997, 9:01 AM CST for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 2, 1997, 9:01 AM CST (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Mar 2, 8:40 AM CST, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 8:40 AM CST, 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 840 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997 H500 LOW OVER W TX ATTM WITH H850 LOW OVER SE TX. AS UPR LVL TROF AND COLD POCKET BGN PULLING TO THE E WILL LIKELY SEE AN INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF SVR WX LATE THIS MRNG AND ERLY THIS AFTN. NEW ETA HAS THIS H500 LOW OVER NE TX BY 00Z TONIGHT WITH VORT MAX WORKING ACRS SE TX AND INTO SW LA BY THIS EVNG. HEAVY RAIN SHUD PRECEDE THIS FTR ACRS SRN 1/2 OF CWA. SEE NO REASON TO MAKE SIG CHANGES TO GOING FCST EXCEPT TO TWEAK TEMPS AS HIGHS WIL LIKELY NOT GET AS WARM AS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT ACRS NRN LA. 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Panola, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Rusk | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith, Wood | 29 min |
| Mar 2, 9:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Wood | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin, Red River | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 10:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Panola, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 12:10 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 9:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln, Union, Webster | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, De Soto, Red River | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Caddo | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 12:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 5:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Union | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 2:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 2:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.