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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 15, 1997Lafayette County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1997, 6:03 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 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
Jun 15, 1997, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Lafayette County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2308 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSHV 152303 RRA
TORSHV
ARC073-152330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
603 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 600 PM...DOPPLER RADAR IN SHREVEPORT DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO
ACROSS SOUTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY NEAR WALNUT HILL. THIS STORM IS MOVING
EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. FROSTVILLE AND LAKE EARLING ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
...CLOSET...OR BATHROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS.
 
IF YOU AR.E CAUGHT OUTSIDE...HURRY TO A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING.
AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
 
13/14

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVHempstead, Nevada3 hr
Jun 15, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLafayette61 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.