Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Jan 4, 1997, 8:49 PM CST (02:49 UTC)

Expired

Jan 4, 1997, 9:30 PM CST

In force

41 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Ouachita Parish, LA, Union 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.

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WUUS1 KSHV 050252 RRA
SVRSHV
LAC073-111-050330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
849 PM CST SAT JAN 4 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS...
 
IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...OUACHITA PARISH...SOUTHERN UNION PARISH
 
AT 847 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE JACKSON/LINCOLN PARISH LINES ABOUT 5 MILES
WEST OF CALHOUN MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
 
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER AND
GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH AT TIMES WHICH WILL AFFECT CALHOUN AND
MONROE BY 900 PM IN OUACHITA PARISH AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN
SECTIONS OF UNION PARISH SOUTH OF FARMERSVILLE.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO
PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR 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, 5 hours 14 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.