Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Feb 26, 1998, 12:08 AM CST (06:08 UTC)

Expired

Feb 26, 1998, 1:10 AM CST

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, TX, Smith County, TX

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 25, 9:05 PM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
905 PM CST WED FEB 25 1998

WINDS ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DROPPING OFF AND THIS SHOULD ALLOW GOOD
RADIATIONAL COOLING WITH THE DRY AIR OVER THE REGION TONIGHT...MAY
NEED TO LOWER TEMPS A TAD ACROSS NORTH LA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH AR.
MORNING GRIDDED DATA INDICATES THAT A MID CLOUD DECK WILL BEGIN
SPREADING ACROSS THE REGION TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SO
PROBABLY NEED TO CHANGE WORDING SOME FOR NORTH LA.

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.