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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 23, 2000Titus County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 3:31 PM CDT for Titus County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. 4 reports 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
Apr 23, 2000, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Titus County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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
Apr 23, 3:40 PM CDTHail 1Mt Pleasant, TX
Apr 23, 3:53 PM CDTTornado F2Mt Pleasant, TXThis tornado developed in a high precipitation supercell as it moved eastward across the county. Small to moderate pine and oak trees were snapped and broken. A mobile home dealership in Cookville, TX was moderately damaged and several homes suffered shingle
Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EWilkerson, TXSeveral large trees down including one on a building resulting in moderage damage.
Apr 23, 4:25 PM CDTHail 1Mt Pleasant, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 23, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 2000-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 271 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
416 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

584 
WFUS54 KSHV 232033
TORSHV
TXC449-232130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
331 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TITUS COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 331 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT PLEASANT. ANOTHER  
  THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY CONTAINING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR        
  WILKINSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 25 MPH.

DURING A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER
PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY
AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  TITUS COUNTY IN TEXAS
UNTIL 430 PM CDT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 8:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSan Augustine37 min
Apr 23, 8:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine, Shelby50 min
Apr 23, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVTitus57 min
Apr 23, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCamp27 min
Apr 23, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMorris40 min
Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUpshur60 min
Apr 23, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVCass55 min
Apr 23, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVGregg44 min
Apr 23, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVGregg40 min
Apr 23, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHarrison57 min
Apr 23, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVCass35 min
Apr 23, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVPanola58 min
Apr 23, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHarrison19 min
Apr 23, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMarion24 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.