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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 2, 1999Franklin County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1999, 2:58 PM CST for Franklin County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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: Mar 2, 1999, 2:58 PM CST (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 1999, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 32 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 21:02 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 2, 3:15 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Cypress, TX

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 nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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.

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: 974 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 Mar 2, 8:50 AM CST, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 8:50 AM CST, 6 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 2, 9:30 AM CST, 5 hours 28 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
Mar 2, 2:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Wood	50 min
Mar 2, 3:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp	32 min
Mar 2, 3:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Morris, Upshur	45 min
Mar 2, 3:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	31 min
Mar 2, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	62 min
Mar 2, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	34 min
Mar 2, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk, Smith	44 min
Mar 2, 3:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	47 min
Mar 2, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk	45 min
Mar 2, 4:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	34 min
Mar 2, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	47 min
Mar 2, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	65 min
Mar 2, 5:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	49 min
Mar 2, 5:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, San Augustine, Shelby	33 min
Mar 2, 5:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	San Augustine	33 min
Mar 2, 4:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	51 min
Mar 2, 4:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	41 min
Mar 2, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	48 min
Mar 2, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne	65 min
Mar 2, 5:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	62 min
Mar 2, 5:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	56 min
Mar 2, 5:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Red River	64 min
Mar 2, 5:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln	51 min
Mar 2, 5:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	63 min
Mar 2, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	46 min
Mar 2, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	45 min
Mar 2, 4:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia	50 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.