Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2001, 11:07 PM CDT for Miller County, Arkansas; Cass County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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
- May 6, 2001, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Miller County, AR, Cass County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Douglassville, TX | Several large trees down. |
| May 6, 11:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Linden, TX | Several large trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 2500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSHV 070408 SVRSHV ARC091-TXC067-070500- /NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0079.070407-070500/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1107 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CASS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1107 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWESTWEST OF TEXARKANA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TEXARKANA AROUND 1115 PM AND NEAR FOUKE AT 1135 PM. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE HIGH AND DAMAGING WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CASS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT 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 May 6, 9:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 9:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 955 PM CDT PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO INCLUDE MENTION OF POSSIBLE SEVERE. NO OTHER CHANGES MADE. 06 .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 6, 6:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
649 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SUTTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0635 PM 5 S PRESCOTT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 ~NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTLocal storm report, May 6, 7:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
735 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SUTTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0635 PM 5 S PRESCOTT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0725 PM LANEBURG AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENTLocal storm report, May 6, 9:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
943 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM SUTTON AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0635 PM 5 S PRESCOTT AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0725 PM LANEBURG AR .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 NEVADA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0920 PM RED HILL TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CASS REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTERS
0933 PM RED HILL TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 CASS REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTERSLocal storm report, May 6, 10:59 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1059 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0905 PM LAKE CHEROKEE TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 GREGG REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTERS
0910 PM 5 ENE HALLSVILLE TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTERS
0945 PM JEFFERSON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL 05/06/01
MARION REPORTED BY KSLA TV
0957 PM 2 SW BOGATA TX WIND DAMAGE
05/06/01 RED RIVER TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1020 PM 5 N CLARKSVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
05/06/01 RED RIVER TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1020 PM 3 N STRONG AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 UNION REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1050 PM 2 N NAPLES TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 MORRIS g REPORTED BY SPOTTERSLocal storm report, May 6, 10:59 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR ALIGNMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1059 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0905 PM LAKE CHEROKEE TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 GREGG REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTERS
0910 PM 5 ENE HALLSVILLE TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTERS
0945 PM JEFFERSON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 MARION REPORTED BY KSLA TV
0957 PM 2 SW BOGATA TX WIND DAMAGE
05/06/01 RED RIVER TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1020 PM 5 N CLARKSVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
05/06/01 RED RIVER TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1020 PM 3 N STRONG AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 UNION REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1050 PM 2 N NAPLES TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/01 MORRIS REPORTED BY SPOTTERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nevada | 45 min |
| May 6, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 62 min |
| May 6, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 58 min |
| May 6, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 62 min |
| May 6, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 65 min |
| May 6, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 63 min |
| May 6, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Rusk | 57 min |
| May 6, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 53 min |
| May 6, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 61 min |
| May 6, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Marion | 32 min |
| May 6, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 61 min |
| May 6, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Morris | 59 min |
| May 6, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Titus | 59 min |
| May 6, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur | 59 min |
| May 6, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Marion | 64 min |
| May 7, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison | 60 min |
| May 7, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola | 55 min |
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.