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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 3, 2000Shelby County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 3, 2000, 6:20 PM CDT for Shelby County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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: May 3, 2000, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Shelby County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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
May 3, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Tenaha, TX	Tornado occurred in all wooded and farmland area void of structures. Numerous pine and oak trees snapped and pushed over.

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
May 3, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSHV 032324
TORSHV
TXC419-040000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
620 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST SHELBY COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 620 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF       
  JOAQUIN...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CENTER...MOVING EAST 
  AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...JOAQUIN BY 635 PM 

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...NORTHEAST SHELBY COUNTY IN TEXAS
UNTIL 700 PM CDT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Wood	49 min
May 3, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	51 min
May 3, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	66 min
May 3, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	61 min
May 3, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	60 min
May 3, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	52 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.