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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 10, 2000Cass County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 5:57 PM CST for Cass County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 2000, 5:57 PM CST (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cass County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 10, 6:15 PM CSTHail 1Douglassville, 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 2000-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 694 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
694 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KSHV 102359
SVRSHV
TXC067-110045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
557 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CASS COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 557 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES WEST OF ATLANTA...
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   ATLANTA AT 615 PM CST

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN
DIAMETER. DO NOT REMAIN OUTSIDE...HEAD FOR A STRONG BUILDING.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CASS COUNTY IN TEXAS
UNTIL 645 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3325 9457 3304 9454 3304 9406 3326 9407

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 7:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River64 min
Mar 10, 11:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison30 min
Mar 10, 2:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCamp, Upshur48 min
Mar 10, 3:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCamp, Titus26 min
Mar 10, 4:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWood50 min
Mar 10, 4:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVAngelina60 min
Mar 10, 5:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUpshur38 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.