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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 28, 2001Franklin County, Titus County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2001, 2:49 AM CDT for Franklin County, Titus County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 28, 2001, 2:49 AM CDT (07:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2001, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Franklin County, TX, Titus County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:53 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 3:05 AM CDTHail 0.75Talco, TX

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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 28, 2:45 AM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:45 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
245 AM CDT THU JUN 28 2001

CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY INTENSIFIED AROUND MIDNIGHT IN EAST
TEXAS NORTH OF TYLER WITH BASEBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN WOOD
COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED IN AN AREA OF HIGHER INSTABILITY.
MESOETA INDICATED A VORT MAX ROTATING AROUND THE UPPER LOW WHICH IS
HELPING TO ENHANCE THUNDERSTORMS. UPPER DIVERGENCE/DEFORMATION
BETWEEN NW FLOW AROUND UPPER LOW IN SE MISSOURI AND FLOW THAT GOES
TO THE SW AROUND UPPER HIGH OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO IS MAIN FEATURE
FOCUSING THE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST TEXAS. STORMS DEVELOPED
ABOUT 200 AM YESTERDAY AND KEPT GOING UNTIL ABOUT MID MORNING AND IT
APPEARS THIS MORNINGS STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST
SUNRISE.

THE ATMOSPHERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE UNSTABLE THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS
UPPER LOW CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SLOWLY MOVES SOUTH AND
WEST INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS BY SATURDAY MORNING AND THEN WEAKENS
OVER THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. DAYTIME HEATING
AND VORT MAXES ROTATING AROUND THE UPPER LOW WILL CONTINUE TO
ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITH A RISK FOR A FEW SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING. ISOLATED AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE ENHANCED DEVELOPMENT LATE AT
NIGHT SIMILAR TO TONIGHTS STORMS IN NORTHEAST TEXAS.

BOTH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OUTLOOK AND QPF DISCUSSION FOCUSING ON HEAVY
RAINFALL AREA IN WESTERN PART OF FORECAST AREA. CONVECTION OVER THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE
ASSOCIATED WITH THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF A JET TO SUPPORT SOME
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS
THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. WEAK MEAN UPPER FLOW WILL ALLOW INDIVIDUAL
CELLS TO MOVE SLOWLY AND OVER THE SAME AREAS. THE AREA WILL BE TO
SMALL TO ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH BUT WILL PUT LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL IN THE WORDING FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.

MAV SHOWING HIGHER POPS ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS CLOSER TO UPPER LOW
WITH NGM FAIRLY UNIFORM. WILL GO WITH PERSISTENCE AND KEEP HIGHER
POPS DURING THE DAY AND LOWER AT NIGHT. HIGH TEMPERATURES SHOULD
RANGE THROUGH THE MID AND UPPER 80S TO POSSIBLY NEAR 90 AT LUFKIN.
LOWS SHOULD STAY NEAR 70 AND BELOW WHERE RAINFALL OCCURS.

PRELIMS...

SHV 87/69/87/70 5454
MLU 87/70/88/70 5454
TXK 86/68/86/69 5454
TYR 87/71/87/70 5454
LFK 89/69/89/70 4354

09

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 12:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1250 AM CDT THU JUN 28 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1220 AM    7 N HAWKINS               TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/01   WOOD                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

MWF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWood62 min
Jun 28, 1:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWood59 min
Jun 28, 1:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHVWood6 hr
Jun 28, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine25 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.