Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Shreveport, LA

October 12, 2001Wood County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 12, 2001, 11:10 PM CDT for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Oct 12, 2001, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2001, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 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.

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 12, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 3184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.7
Supercell composite: 13.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

107 
WUUS54 KSHV 130411
SVRSHV
TXC499-130515-
/NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0084.130410-130515/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1110 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1110 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF QUITMAN...OR
  ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINEOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  QUITMAN AT 1130 PM 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 LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS 
UP TO 70 MPH. DO NOT REMAIN OUTSIDE.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 1215 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3295 9572 3275 9572 3261 9517 3290 9519

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 12, 8:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 8:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
820 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001

UPDATED FORECAST TO EXPAND FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTHWARD TO INCLUDE
THE WESTERN HALF OF AREA. IN ADDITION...DUE TO THE EXISTENCE OF
THREE DISCRETE AREAS OF STRONG CONVECTION...WILL ELIMINATE THE
SEPARATION OF EVENING AND LATE WORDING ON TSTM COVERAGE FOR MOST
LOCATIONS.

.SHV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST
TEXAS...AND AJCACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS...
ARZ050-051-059-070-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-
165>167-131000-

VII

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 12, 9:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
955 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001

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

0715 PM    8 SE COLUMBIA             LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
10/12/01   CALDWELL                       GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. FROM
                                          CORPS OF ENGINEERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 12, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	61 min
Oct 12, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Titus	59 min
Oct 12, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	61 min
Oct 13, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	50 min
Oct 13, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.