Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 7:05 PM CDT for Union Parish, Louisiana. 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
- Jun 21, 2001, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 E | Farmerville, LA | Trees reported down in several locations in town. Wind blew gravel off the ground in a parking lot and peppered cars. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 21, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 250 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001 SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES TODAY AS EVIDENT IN VISIBLE SATELLITE... WHICH HAVE FIRED UP A LINE OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS NW SECTIONS OF CWFA. SEA BREEZE TRIGGERING SCATTERED ACTIVITY ACROSS SOUTH. SHOULD BE AN INTERESTING MIX WHEN TWO AREAS MEET. AS PER ETA...WILL GO WITH THIS SYSTEM MOVING ON OUT OF THE SE SECTIONS BY MIDDAY FRI WITH SUNNY SKIES NW TO DECREASING CLOUDS SE. THIS FRONT SHOULD BRING A WELCOME COOL DOWN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT ALAS TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY REBOUND BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND. NEXT SHOT OF RAIN WILL COME BACK INTO PLAY BY TUE AND ON INTO WED AND THU...AS WE WILL GET THE RETURN OF A SOUTHERLY FETCH...SUMMERTIME AFTERNOON ACTIVITY TYPE OF ROUTINE TO COME BACK INTO PLAY. WILL STILL NUDGE DOWN TXK HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM MOS DUE TO CONTAMINATION OF DATA...OTHERWISE WILL NOT STRAY TOO FAR. PRELIMS... SHV 065/086 062/087 066 5000 MLU 069/085 063/087 065 6200 TXK 063/084 061/086 063 3000 TYR 064/084 062/089 066 4000 LFK 068/087 061/090 065 5100 20 .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 21, 3:05 PM CDT, 4 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
305 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0205 PM 2 S BETHEL OK .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 MCCURTAIN REPORTED ALONG HWY 259
BY GENERAL PUBLIC.
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 44 min |
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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.