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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 7, 1998Sabine Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 5:46 PM CST for Sabine Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
Mar 7, 1998, 5:46 PM CST (23:46 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 1998, 6:35 PM CST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Sabine Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 7, 5:53 PM CSTHail 1.75Many, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 7, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 1998-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 226 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 7, 3:10 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 3:10 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 10:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSan Augustine31 min
Mar 7, 3:08 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWood32 min
Mar 7, 4:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCass47 min
Mar 7, 5:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVFranklin46 min
Mar 7, 7:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVAngelina47 min
Mar 7, 8:20 AM CSTTornado WarningSHVAngelina50 min
Mar 7, 8:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine, San Augustine46 min
Mar 7, 10:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby49 min
Mar 7, 1:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMarion37 min
Mar 6, 6:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches49 min
Mar 7, 12:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVOuachita51 min
Mar 7, 5:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLaSalle62 min
Mar 7, 7:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGrant50 min
Mar 7, 7:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLaSalle48 min
Mar 7, 7:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWinn35 min
Mar 7, 7:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVJackson48 min
Mar 7, 8:47 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville63 min
Mar 7, 9:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine63 min
Mar 7, 9:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto50 min
Mar 7, 10:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVClaiborne, Union33 min
Mar 7, 11:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLaSalle33 min
Mar 7, 8:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHoward32 min
Mar 7, 11:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion48 min
Mar 7, 11:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVLittle River, Sevier62 min
Mar 7, 12:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHempstead32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.