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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 5, 1998Columbia County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 12:03 AM CDT for Columbia County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 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 5, 1998, 12:03 AM CDT (05:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1998, 12:50 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Columbia County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 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

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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 Jun 4, 8:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 11:07 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 11:35 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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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	Camp, Franklin, Wood	60 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.