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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 6:38 PM CDT for Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2000, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Claiborne Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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, 7:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Hurricane, LA | Numerous trees down. |
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, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.
917 WFUS54 KSHV 232338 TORSHV LAC027-240045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 638 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CLAIBORNE PARISH IN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 638 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF ATHENS...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MINDEN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CLAIBORNE PARISH IN LOUISIANA UNTIL 745 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3280 9322 3261 9319 3261 9289 3277 9284
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, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | De Soto | 47 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, 6:58 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.