Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Jan 4, 1997, 7:52 PM CST (01:52 UTC)

Expired

Jan 4, 1997, 8:45 PM CST

In force

53 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

County Bienville Parish, LA

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.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 050153
SVRSHV
LAC013-050245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
752 PM CST SAT JAN 4 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA...
 
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...BIENVILLE PARISH
 
AT 7495 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN BIENVILLE PARISH ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST
OF RINGGOLD MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. THIS STORM
WILL PRODUCE HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER.
 
ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN WEBSTER PARISH JUST EAST OF
HEFLIN MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED
DIME SIZE HAIL AT DUBBERLY AT 750 PM. THIS STORM WILL MOVIE
INTO BIENVILLE PARISH TO NEAR ADA AND SAILES AND THEN
KMT LEBANON AND ARCADIA.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO
PROTECT YOURSELF AND YO@UR PROPERTY...SUCH AS YOUR CAR...BOAT...AND
PETS...FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
 
 
 
&

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 4, 3:35 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
320 PM CST SAT JAN 4 1997

BEEN WAITING FOR PCPN ON RADAR OR AT LEAST SOME CU DVLPMNT BUT
APPARENTLY LOW LVL FLOW BEING MORE SW THAN SOUTH SO NO DEEPENING OF
MSTR. WILL LEAVE IN ISLTD TSTM WITH FROPA AND SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS IN
NE CWA WHERE BOTH MSTR AND DYNAMICS BETTER. NGM LOOKING LIKE BEST
MODEL AT LEAST IN SHORT TERM SHOWING BEST CHC PCPN IN AR. MODELS IN
DECENT AGREEMENT WITH TEMPS TIL 4TH PERIOD. WILL COMPROMISE ON THOSE
TEMPS AS INCREASING CLD CVR WILL REDUCE HEATING. RPD INCREASES IN MSTR
INDICATED BTWN 48-60 HOUR WITH LOW REMAINING IN WESTERN NM. AS THIS
LOW UNDERCUTS MASSIVE HIGH IN WESTERN USA...MAJOR OVERRUNNING EVENT
WILL TAKE PLACE DURG THE WEEK. LOW LVL NORTH FLOW AROUND HIGH WILL
STEADILY LOWER THICKNESS AND AS FLOW BECOMES NE...AVN HAS 540 LINE
MEANDERING IN EXTREME SE OK 48-72 HOUR. WILL SPECULATE MORE ON PCPN
TYPE IN NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

SHV 47/60/33/49  1002           MLU 52/58/34/47  3001
VII

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.