Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Apr 1, 2000, 7:50 PM CST (01:50 UTC)

Expired

Apr 1, 2000, 8:45 PM CST

In force

55 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties De Soto Parish, LA, Shelby County, TX

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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.

000 
WUUS54 KSHV 020153
SVRSHV
LAC031-TXC419-020245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
750 PM CST SAT APR 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DE SOTO PARISH IN LOUISIANA
  NORTHEASTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 750 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF JOAQUIN...OR
  ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF CENTER. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM    
  WAS LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF CENTER OR NEAR SHELBYVILLE TEXAS. 
  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MPH.

* THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MANSFIELD AT 810 PM CST

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.
DO NOT REMAIN OUTSIDE...THIS IS A DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DE SOTO PARISH IN LOUISIANA
  NORTHEASTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN TEXAS
UNTIL 845 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3190 9415 3177 9400 3208 9359 3225 9379

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 1, 3:15 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
315 PM CST SAT APR 1 2000

FIRST IN SERIES OF VORT MAXES BRINGING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS TO CWA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS IN ADVANCE OF SURFACE
FRONTS. COLD FRONT IS NEARING NORTHWEST PORTION OF CWA AND SHOULD
SLOWLY SINK SOUTHEAST TONIGHT. THUS HIGH POPS CONTINUING IN
FORECAST. PROBLEMS MAY ARISE IF COLD FRONT BECOMES STATIONARY
ACROSS CWA. MODELS HANDLE THIS DIFFERENT WITH AVN STALLING THE
FRONT. ETA IS A LITTLE MORE PROGRESSIVE...PUSHING BOUNDARY SOUTH OF
AREA ...THEN BRINGING IT BACK MONDAY. LIKE ETA SOLUTION SO USED IT
IN DETERMINING POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING. SINCE IT IS THE
COOLEST MODEL...850 DEWPOINTS AS WELL AS THETA E ANALYSIS SUGGEST
SYSTEM MAY BE A LITTLE LACKING FOR FLASH FLOOD RAINS. SHEAR IS ALSO
VERY HIGH...AND FAST MOVING SHEARED STORMS ARE NOT TYPICAL HEAVY
RAIN PRODUCERS. THUS WILL CONTINUE WITH MENTION OF HEAVY RAIN AND
POSSIBLE SEVERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF FRONT. EVENT WILL LAST THROUGH
MONDAY BEFORE TROF BEGINS TO KICK OUT. AVN SEEMS TO HOLD ON TO RAIN
TOO LONG INTO TUESDAY...HOWEVER EASTERN PORTIONS MAY HAVE
PRECIPITATION EARLY. FAIR AND COOLER WEATHER TUESDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH THURSDAY.

PRELIMS...
SHV 59/68/59/70 8868
MLU 60/72/59/71 8878
TXK 54/66/54/64 8768
TYR 56/65/55/65 8868
LFK 62/73/60/70 8868

.SHV...NONE.

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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.