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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 23, 2000Morris County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 3:50 PM CDT for Morris County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 3 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, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Morris County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 23, 4:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Daingerfield, TX
Apr 23, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Omaha, TX	This tornado developed in a high precipitation supercell as it moved eastward across the county. Numerous large pine and oak trees were snapped and broken. Several barns were damaged but the tornado stayed mostly across rural farmland and forests. This torn
Apr 23, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Daingerfield, TX	Numerous large pine and oak trees snapped and broken. A roof was partially removed from a brick house and a chain link fence wrapped in a pine tree about 50 feet up. This was one of several tornadoes which occurred. This tornado continued into Cass County,

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 23, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

245 
WFUS54 KSHV 232050
TORSHV
TXC343-232130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MORRIS COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 350 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF OMAHA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF
  MOUNT PLEASANT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  OMAHA
  NAPLES

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...
  NORTHERN MORRIS COUNTY IN TEXAS
UNTIL 430 PM CDT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 8:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	San Augustine	37 min
Apr 23, 8:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine, Shelby	50 min
Apr 23, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Titus	57 min
Apr 23, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Titus	59 min
Apr 23, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp	27 min
Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	60 min
Apr 23, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass	55 min
Apr 23, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	44 min
Apr 23, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg	40 min
Apr 23, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison	57 min
Apr 23, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass	35 min
Apr 23, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola	58 min
Apr 23, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison	19 min
Apr 23, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Marion	24 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.