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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Shreveport, LA

January 21, 1999Cherokee County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1999, 10:57 PM CST for Cherokee County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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: Jan 21, 1999, 10:57 PM CST (04:57 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 1999, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Cherokee County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 21, 11:10 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Jacksonville, TX	Few trees down across Hwy 135.
Jan 21, 11:10 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Jacksonville, TX	Trees down across Hwy 110.

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
Jan 21, 8:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 959 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 7.9

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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 Jan 21, 8:25 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 8:25 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
825 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

EXPECT TSTM COVERAGE TO INCREASE WITH APPROACH OF 150+ KNT JET
STREAK FROM NM.  CURRENT ZONE FCSTS FOR TONIGHT APPEAR FINE WITH
TEMP...SFC WND...AND CLOUD TRENDS.  EXPECT SVR TSTMS TO CONTINUE
DEVELOPING WITH ULTIMATELY A LN OF TSTMS TO DEVELOP WITH LEWPS IN
THE LN PRODUCING WND DAMAGE AND/OR TORNADOES.  VIII.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 21, 5:15 PM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
515 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0458 PM    HOPE                      AR   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   HEMPSTEAD                      FROM COUNTY JUDGE.

0505 PM    HOPE                      AR   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   HEMPSTEAD                      FROM HOPE PD.

Local storm report, Jan 21, 5:21 PM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
521 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0518 PM    EMMET                     AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   NEVADA                         REPORTED FROM HAM RADIO
                                          SPOTTERS.

Local storm report, Jan 21, 6:34 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
634 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0315 PM    STAMPS                    AR   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   LAFAYETTE                      FROM SPOTTER REPORT.
                                          LASTED FIVE MINUTES.

0320 PM    BUCKNER                   AR   1 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   LAFAYETTE                      FROM SPOTTER REPORT.

0400 PM    8 E TEXARKANA             AR   .75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   MILLER                         STORM SPOTTER AT 8 MILE
                                          MARKER ON HIGHWAY 82
                                          LASTED FOR TEN MINUTES.

Local storm report, Jan 21, 6:46 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
646 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0635 PM    FAIRBANKS                 LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99   OUACHITA                       FROM PUBLIC REPORTS
                                          RELAYED VIA KTVE
                                          METEOROLOGIST.  HAIL ALSO
                                          NOTED IN SCHWARTZ AND
                                          LAKESHORE COMMUNITIES AT
                                          APPROXIMATELY SAME TIME.

Local storm report, Jan 21, 7:24 PM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
724 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0640 PM    FAIRBANKS                 LA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
01/21/99   OUACHITA                       TREES DOWNED.  REPORTS
                                          FROM KNOE TV METEOROLOGIST
                                          IN MONROE.

Local storm report, Jan 21, 10:40 PM CST, 17 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
Jan 21, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Titus	32 min
Jan 21, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	65 min
Jan 21, 10:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	32 min
Jan 21, 10:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	63 min
Jan 21, 11:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Marion	63 min
Jan 21, 11:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Rusk	59 min
Jan 21, 11:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	63 min
Jan 21, 11:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	59 min
Jan 22, 12:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	31 min
Jan 22, 2:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	49 min
Jan 22, 4:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	61 min
Jan 22, 5:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bowie	61 min
Jan 21, 6:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	42 min
Jan 21, 8:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	LaSalle	50 min
Jan 22, 12:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	64 min
Jan 22, 12:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	60 min
Jan 22, 12:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	62 min
Jan 22, 1:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	47 min
Jan 22, 1:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne	46 min
Jan 22, 4:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	49 min
Jan 22, 4:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	48 min
Jan 22, 4:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	49 min
Jan 22, 5:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Red River	49 min
Jan 22, 5:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Red River	50 min
Jan 22, 5:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville	45 min
Jan 22, 5:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson	46 min
Jan 22, 5:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln	49 min
Jan 22, 6:10 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Lincoln	35 min
Jan 22, 6:17 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Ouachita	48 min
Jan 22, 6:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	47 min
Jan 22, 7:22 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto	4 hr
Jan 22, 7:22 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Webster	4 hr
Jan 22, 11:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	58 min
Jan 22, 11:51 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant	44 min
Jan 21, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	45 min
Jan 21, 8:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Hempstead	33 min
Jan 21, 11:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	61 min
Jan 22, 12:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia	61 min
Jan 22, 12:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	61 min
Jan 22, 2:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	46 min
Jan 22, 5:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Little River	61 min
Jan 22, 5:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	59 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.