Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

Mar 28, 2000, 10:20 PM CST (04:20 UTC)

Expired

Mar 28, 2000, 11:00 PM CST

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cass County, TX, Marion County, TX

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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 290422
SVRSHV
TXC067-315-290500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1020 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM CST

* AT 1020 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  JEFFERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.
DO NOT REMAIN OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CASS COUNTY IN TEXAS
  MARION COUNTY IN TEXAS
UNTIL 1100 PM CST.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 28, 10:17 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1017 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000

VERY SEVERE STORMS MOVED EAST INTO THE AREA BUT ARE GRADUALLY
WEAKENING. STRONGEST CELL IN RUSK COUNTY MAINTAINED INDICATIONS OF
OF ROTATION AND GIANT HAIL FOR PAST COUPLE OF HOURS...LIKELY DUE TO
ITS ISOLATED PROXIMITY. STORMS FURTHER NORTH CLUSTERED TOGETHER AND
SOME STILL SEVERE...BUT WILL LIKELY NOT INCREASE IN INTENSITY. ALSO
TWEAKED AND EASED UP ON AMBIENT WINDS...RAISED POPS NORTH SECTIONS...
AND RAISED TEMPS A COUPLE OF CATEGORIES...AS NO REAL BOUNDARY SEEN
TO SWEEP THROUGH TONIGHT. COULD ALSO SEE MORE ISOLATED DEVELOPMENT
FURTHER TO WEST MOVE INTO EAST TEXAS LATER TONIGHT.

VII

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
645 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0540 PM    MIRA                      LA   1 INCH HAIL
03/29/00   CADDO                          REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
                                          SPOTTERS

0553 PM    PLAIN DEALING             LA   .75 INCH HAIL
03/29/00   BOSSIER                        REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
                                          SPOTTERS

0635 PM    SHREVEPORT                LA   .75 INCH HAIL
03/29/00   CADDO                          REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
                                          SPOTTERS

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.