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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Shreveport, LA

February 27, 1999Caddo Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 2:27 PM CST for Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 33 min. 3 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
Feb 27, 1999, 2:27 PM CST (20:27 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1999, 3:00 PM CST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Caddo Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 27, 2:35 PM CSTHail 0.88Shreveport, LA
Feb 27, 2:35 PM CSTHail 0.88Blanchard, LA
Feb 27, 3:00 PM CSTHail 1Shreveport, LA

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 27, 1:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 281 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1999-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 520 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1999-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 140 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
520 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 12:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby31 min
Feb 27, 1:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRusk32 min
Feb 27, 2:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee, Rusk42 min
Feb 27, 2:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPanola42 min
Feb 27, 3:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVShelby33 min
Feb 27, 1:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto30 min
Feb 27, 1:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier, Webster31 min
Feb 27, 1:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBienville, Claiborne43 min
Feb 27, 1:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River43 min
Feb 27, 2:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVJackson, Lincoln30 min
Feb 27, 2:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier30 min
Feb 27, 3:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCaddo33 min
Feb 27, 3:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWebster50 min
Feb 27, 3:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGrant, LaSalle47 min
Feb 27, 3:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBossier33 min
Feb 27, 4:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVDe Soto33 min
Feb 27, 4:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches, Red River47 min
Feb 27, 5:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.