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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Shreveport, LA

February 26, 1998Lincoln Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1998, 3:28 AM CST for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. 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: Feb 26, 1998, 3:28 AM CST (09:28 UTC)
Expired: Feb 26, 1998, 4:15 AM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:31 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
Feb 26, 12:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Feb 26, 2:45 AM CST, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 2:45 AM CST, 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 26, 1:15 AM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 26, 2:28 AM CST, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, Feb 26, 2:28 AM CST, 1 hour 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
Feb 26, 12:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Smith	62 min
Feb 26, 12:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Morris, Titus	62 min
Feb 26, 12:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur, Wood	62 min
Feb 26, 12:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	49 min
Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	96 min
Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches	96 min
Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Rusk	96 min
Feb 26, 12:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Marion	96 min
Feb 26, 1:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	61 min
Feb 26, 1:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	59 min
Feb 26, 1:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine	75 min
Feb 26, 1:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	95 min
Feb 26, 1:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	95 min
Feb 26, 2:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	64 min
Feb 26, 2:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Red River	61 min
Feb 26, 2:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Claiborne, Webster	93 min
Feb 26, 3:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Winn	62 min
Feb 26, 9:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	LaSalle	50 min
Feb 26, 1:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	64 min
Feb 26, 1:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	61 min
Feb 26, 1:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	62 min
Feb 26, 2:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Nevada	62 min
Feb 26, 3:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	65 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.