Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2001, 2:35 AM CDT for Bowie County, Texas; Little River County, Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 40 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
- Sep 9, 2001, 2:35 AM CDT (07:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2001, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Bowie County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 3:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Texarkana, TX | Structural damage to a commercial storage facility on FM 989 between US-59 and US-67. |
| Sep 9, 3:10 AM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Garland, AR |
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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1778 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 Sep 8, 9:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 9:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 950 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 FRONTAL BOUNDARY...EXTENDS FROM NORTH CENTRAL TX...NEAR ABI NORTHEAST TO NEAR MLC TO NEAR FSM...SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WERE NOTED OVER SOUTHEAST OK AND SOUTHWEST AR. SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE BEGINNING TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND SINK A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH OVER SOUTHEAST OK AND WESTERN AR...AS LIFT BEGINS TO INCREASE AHEAD OF SHORT WAVE MOVING OUT INTO THE PLAINS. ADDED CHANCE OF SEVERE A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH...TO THE TXK AREA AND ADDED CHANCE OF HEAVY RAIN TO THE NORTH...AS CELLS WILL BE TRAINING...AS THEY HAVE OVER SOUTHEAST OK THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE ONLY MADE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO CURRENT FORECAST. UPDATE ALREADY OUT. IV .SHV...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every 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.