Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 365, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1998, 1:52 PM CDT for Franklin County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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
- Oct 2, 1998, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1998, 2:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 2, 9:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 9:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 10:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-021600- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CDT FRI OCT 2 1998 MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS MAINLY NORTHEAST TEXAS WILL INTERACT WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND POSSIBLY SPREAD INTO WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH BRIEF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. DUE TO ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER...ACTIVATION OF SPOTTER GROUPS...EMERGENCY MANAGERS...AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. VII
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 10:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-021600- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CDT FRI OCT 2 1998 MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS MAINLY NORTHEAST TEXAS WILL INTERACT WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND POSSIBLY SPREAD INTO WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH BRIEF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. DUE TO ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER...ACTIVATION OF SPOTTER GROUPS...EMERGENCY MANAGERS...AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. VII
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass, Morris | 51 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.