Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 6:13 PM CDT for De Soto Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 47 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, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County De Soto Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Mansfield, LA | A high precipitation supercell produced a tornado as part of an outbreak of tornados across the region. Damage consisted of large pine and oak trees uprooted or snapped. A mobile home was split in half from a fallen oak. Most damage to residences were from |
| Apr 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Hail 4.5 | Mansfield, LA | |
| Apr 23, 6:56 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Carmel, LA | |
| Apr 23, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado F3 | Evelyn, LA | A high precipitation supercell produced a tornado as part of an outbreak of tornados across the region. Damage consisted of large pine trees snapped and oak trees blown down. Most damage to residences were from fallen trees. A number of outbuildings were da |
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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
605 WFUS54 KSHV 232314 TORSHV LAC031-240000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 613 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DE SOTO PARISH IN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 613 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MANSFIELD AT 635 PM CDT THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO THAT IS OBSCURED BY RAIN AND DIFFICULT TO SEE. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... DE SOTO PARISH IN LOUISIANA UNTIL 700 PM CDT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 9:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Webster | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | De Soto | 32 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.