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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 23, 2000Bienville Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 7:25 PM CDT for Bienville Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 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, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Bienville Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 1042 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 368 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 558 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 11.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSHV 240027
TORSHV
LAC013-240130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BIENVILLE PARISH IN LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
AND SPOTTERS CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST 
SOUTH OF CASTOR LOUISIANA. THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING 
EAST NEAR 15 MPH. LUCKY AND SALINE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

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...
  BIENVILLE PARISH IN LOUISIANA
UNTIL 830 PM CDT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	45 min
Apr 23, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	39 min
Apr 23, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo	60 min
Apr 23, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Red River	59 min
Apr 23, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Lincoln	58 min
Apr 23, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier	54 min
Apr 23, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	54 min
Apr 23, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	64 min
Apr 23, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita	53 min
Apr 23, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Winn	53 min
Apr 23, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	19 min
Apr 23, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	15 min
Apr 23, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	LaSalle	48 min
Apr 23, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	42 min
Apr 23, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	40 min
Apr 23, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Winn	36 min
Apr 23, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell	30 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.