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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2000, 5:41 PM CST for Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 34 min. 2 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
- Mar 29, 2000, 5:41 PM CST (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 5:53 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Plain Dealing, LA | |
| Mar 29, 5:55 PM CST | Hail 1.25 | Benton, LA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSHV 292342 TORSHV LAC015-017-300015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 541 PM CST WED MAR 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BOSSIER PARISH IN LOUISIANA NORTHERN CADDO PARISH IN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 615 PM CST * AT 541 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF VIVIAN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TYPE OF THUNDERSTORM USUALLY OCCUR ON THE EAST TO SOUTH PART OF THE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT FOR A STURDY BUILDING OR GET IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. MOBILE HOMES PROVIDE NO PROTECTION IN A TORNADO. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BOSSIER PARISH IN LOUISIANA NORTHERN CADDO PARISH IN LOUISIANA UNTIL 615 PM CST. LAT...LON 3297 9394 3280 9402 3254 9m345 3287 9348
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 10:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 40 min |
| Mar 29, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 67 min |
| Mar 29, 2:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 54 min |
| Mar 29, 5:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier | 71 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.