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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 23, 2000Lafayette County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 5:21 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2000, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Lafayette County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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.

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, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.

165 
WFUS54 KSHV 232222
TORSHV
ARC073-232315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF        
  BRADLEY...MOVING EAST NEAR 20 MPH. 

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BUCKNER
  BRADLEY

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...
  LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN ARKANSAS
UNTIL 615 PM CDT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sevier	65 min
Apr 23, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sevier	65 min
Apr 23, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Little River, Sevier	63 min
Apr 23, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard	59 min
Apr 23, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Howard	62 min
Apr 23, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	25 min
Apr 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia	57 min
Apr 23, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	34 min
Apr 23, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.