Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Shreveport, LA

Issued

May 7, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)

Expired

May 7, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Shreveport, LA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Caddo Parish, LA, Harrison County, 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.

000 
WUUS54 KSHV 072330
SVRSHV
LAC017-TXC203-080030-
/NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0084.072330-080030/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
630 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  CADDO PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 630 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WASKOM...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARSHALL...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO CADDO PARISH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WASKOM AT 645 PM CDT
  2 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENWOOD AT 655 PM CDT
  4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHREVEPORT...5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLANCHARD AT
  715 PM CDT

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  CADDO PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
UNTIL 730 PM CDT.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 7, 2:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
225 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001

LAST OF THE SHORT WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER TROUGH CURRENTLY
LOCATED OVER THE FOUR STATE REGION WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA
TONIGHT. DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING MORE THAN SCATTERED CONVECTION...AND
MUCH OF THE CURRENT INSTABILITY FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH
AFTER SUNSET. SURFACE DEWPOINTS STILL RATHER JUICY SOUTHERN PORTION
OF AREA...BUT MID LEVEL SHEAR IS WEAK AND LOW LEVEL FLOW IS WEAK AND
DISORGANIZED FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT TSTM ACTIVITY. THIS AREA HOWEVER
IS STILL UNDER SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WHICH SHOULD HELP MOVE ACTIVITY
DEVELOPING IN THE JUICY AIRMASS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST ZONES.

WEAK CONVERGENCE AREA WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHERN MOST ZONES ON
TUESDAY...THEN AFTER THIS...MODELS AGREE ON DRYING OUT. TEMPS WILL
BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMAL WITH FAIRLY WEAK NORTHERLY FLOW SETTING UP
ALOFT. SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL RETURN AND DOMINATE IN THE LOW LEVELS...
BUT SHOULD REMAIN RATHER WEAK. MRF MOS THROWS IN 20 AND 30 POPS
TOWARD THE WEEKEND...BUT WILL LEAVE OUT OF FORECAST...AS THIS BARELY
SEASON NORMAL NUMBERS WITH NO FEATURES SURFACE OR ALOFT TO FOCUS
PRECIP ON.

SHV 62/81/58/82 2111
MLU 62/81/57/81 2111
TXK 61/80/58/80 3111
TYR 61/81/59/82 3111
LFK 62/83/60/83 3211

.SHV...NONE.

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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.