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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Shreveport, LA

October 11, 2001Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 11, 2001, 10:25 AM CDT for Webster Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 50 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: Oct 11, 2001, 10:25 AM CDT (15:25 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2001, 11:15 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:25 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
Oct 11, 10:55 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Minden, LA	Trees were felled and several storage sheds were crushed and a tin roof was blown off a barn.

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
Oct 11, 10:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 1346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

815 
WUUS54 KSHV 111526
SVRSHV
LAC119-111615-
/NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0062.111525-111615/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1025 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT

* AT 1025 AM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  MINDEN...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINDEN AT 1030 AM CDT

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...
UNTIL 1115 AM CDT.

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 Oct 11, 10:10 AM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 10:10 AM CDT, 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1010 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001

ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER PRECLUDES MUCH DISCUSSION TODAY. WILL UPDATE
TEXAS ZONES TO INCLUDE NEW TORNADO WATCH OVER SOUTHWEST AR AND NORTH
LA. OTHER THAN THAT...CURRENT ZONES WILL BE MODIFIED ONLY  SLIGHTLY.

03

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 11, 5:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
550 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001

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

0200 AM    PLAIN DEALING             LA   FLOODING
10/11/01   BOSSIER                        WATER INTO HOUSE NORTH OF
                                          PLAIN DEALING. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0400 AM    JEFFERSON                 AR   FLOODING
10/11/01   COLUMBIA                       RAILROAD UNDERPASS UNDER
                                          WATER 1/2 MILE EAST OF
                                          COUNTY LINE ON HWY 82.
                                          18 WHEELER DAMAGED
                                          ATTEMPTING TO CROSS.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

0500 AM    STAMPS                    AR   FLOODING
10/11/01   LAFAYETTE                      FULLER MILL ROAD CLOSED
                                          DUE TO WATER. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Special weather statement, Oct 11, 6:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

ARZ061-070>072-LAZ002-TXZ112-111400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
636 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001

OVERNIGHT FLOODING HAS RECEDED IN SOME AREAS...AND WILL
SLOWLY RECEDE IN OTHERS THIS MORNING. FLOODING HAS PRODUCED
TRAVELING HAZARDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT WATER ON ROADWAYS HAS
CONTRIBUTED TO EARLY MORNING ACCIDENTS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED
TO REDUCE SPEED AND EXERCISE GREAT CAUTION THIS MORNING.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH...AND AVOID
ENTERING WATER THAT IS SWIFTLY FLOWING.

ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LIKELY FALL AT TIMES...THIS MORNING AND
EARLY AFTERNOON...WHICH MAY AGGRAVATE FLOODING CONDITIONS.
BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING OCCURS...BY MOVING TO
HIGHER GROUND.

Special weather statement, Oct 11, 10:15 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-111630-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1015 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...AND ISOLATED
TORNADOES...THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF NORTH LOUISIANA...AND
SOUTH ARKANSAS.

A WEAK COLD FRONT TRIGGERED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST
TEXAS LATE THIS MORNING. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST
INTO NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...AND SOUTH ARKANSAS DURING THE EARLY
AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG...
DAMAGING WINDS...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE.

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND SPOTTER
GROUPS...MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 12:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier	4 hr
Oct 11, 9:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	51 min
Oct 11, 9:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	41 min
Oct 11, 10:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Claiborne	51 min
Oct 11, 11:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Union	39 min
Oct 11, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	50 min
Oct 11, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, LaSalle	42 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.