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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 14, 2001Hempstead County, Miller County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT for Hempstead County, Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 60 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: Jun 14, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hempstead County, AR, Miller County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 10:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 58 E	Blevins, AR	Several large 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
Jun 14, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 2887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 9:00 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 9:00 PM CDT, 1 hour before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
900 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

WILL UPDATE THE ONGOING ZONES TO MAKE A FEW MINOR CHANGES. .TATE
WILL KEEP MENTION OF POSSIBLY SEVERE SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN
REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE. WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST...MUCH OF THE
NORTHERN 2/3RDS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT.

WINDS UP TO 60 MPH LIKELY OVER PARTS OF THE WATCH AREA.

06

PREVIOUS NUMBERS...
SHV 73/88/68/93 6510
MLU 75/89/69/93 4620
TXK 72/87/67/90 7400
TYR 72/87/67/92 6300
LFK 75/90/70/94 5510

.SHV...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	62 min
Jun 14, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Titus	53 min
Jun 14, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	57 min
Jun 14, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Morris, Upshur, Wood	59 min
Jun 14, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion	61 min
Jun 14, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	60 min
Jun 14, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	67 min
Jun 15, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	64 min
Jun 15, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	64 min
Jun 15, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Winn	57 min
Jun 15, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant	57 min
Jun 15, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	LaSalle	60 min
Jun 14, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River, Sevier	57 min
Jun 14, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.