Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT for Camp County, Franklin County, Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Jun 4, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Camp County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Wood County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 10:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Quitman, TX | |
| Jun 4, 10:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Pittsburg, TX |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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 Jun 4, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 830 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1998 WILL UPDATE TO TAKE IN SEVERE WEATHER OVER NORTH CENTRAL TX MOVING INTO NORTHEAST TX AND POSSIBLY NORTHWEST LA LATER TONIGHT. WILL ALSO ADD HAZE TO FORECAST AS HAZE AND SMOKE HAVE RETURNED ONCE AGAIN. OTHERWISE CURRENT FORECAST IS ON TRACK. IV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Titus | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Morris | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Wood | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith, Upshur | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 6:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 7:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | San Augustine | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Angelina | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | San Augustine | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 9:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Red River | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 9:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Winn | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 9:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita, Union | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Miller | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Nevada | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 47 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.