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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA

January 23, 1997De Soto Parish, Red River Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 23, 1997, 7:14 PM CST for De Soto Parish, Red River Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 1997, 7:14 PM CST (01:14 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 1997, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties De Soto Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jan 23, 7:15 PM CST	Tornado F2	Rambin, LA
Jan 23, 8:00 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Carmel, LA
Jan 23, 8:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Gloster, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 470 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 240114 RRA
TORSHV
LAC031-081-240200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
714 PM CST THU JAN 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CST
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS...
 
IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN DE SOTO PARISH...SOUTHERN RED RIVER PARISH
 
AT 712 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR PELICAN
IN SOUTHEAST DE SOTO PARISH MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS
POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL MOVE NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF COUSHATTA AROUND 730 PM
CST.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
...CLOSET...OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID 8WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 6:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	37 min
Jan 23, 7:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	32 min
Jan 23, 7:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	48 min
Jan 23, 8:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	51 min
Jan 23, 8:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville	40 min
Jan 23, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson	60 min
Jan 23, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	30 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.