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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA

January 2, 2000Red River County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2000, 11:20 AM CST for Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jan 2, 2000, 11:20 AM CST (17:20 UTC)
Expired
Jan 2, 2000, 11:55 AM CST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Red River County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-01-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 91 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-01-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-289 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

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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.