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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Shreveport, LA

November 26, 2001Bienville Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 4:26 PM CST for Bienville Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 26, 2001, 4:26 PM CST (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Nov 26, 2001, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bienville Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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
Nov 26, 4:51 PM CST	Tornado F1	Bryceland, LA	A supercell developed in a favorable environment which produced a weak tornado. Damage was mostly confined to small trees, tree limbs, and street signs. The tornado was described by an eye witness as mostly clear air with streamers of clouds pouring out of t

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
Nov 26, 1:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

159 
WFUS54 KSHV 262227
TORSHV
LAC013-262330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
426 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BIENVILLE PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 426 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER   
RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER BIENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 
MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BRYCELAND BY 435 PM CST

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  BIENVILLE PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
UNTIL 530 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3236 9327 3214 9287 3236 9279 3256 9298

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 26, 2:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	49 min
Nov 26, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto	40 min
Nov 26, 2:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	39 min
Nov 26, 3:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	36 min
Nov 26, 4:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	67 min
Nov 26, 4:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Lincoln	62 min
Nov 26, 4:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Webster	32 min
Nov 26, 5:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne	55 min
Nov 26, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson	63 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.