Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2001, 5:21 PM CST for Gregg County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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
- Dec 16, 2001, 5:21 PM CST (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2001, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gregg County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Judson, TX | A weak tornado developed along a squall line and moved rapidly north northeast. Damage was confined to tree limbs and brush and occurred away from any buildings or structures. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 425 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
276 WFUS54 KSHV 162322 TORSHV TXC183-170000- /NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0024.162321-170000/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 521 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREGG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 521 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF LONGVIEW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LONGVIEW AT 530 PM CST DURING A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME...OR BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREGG COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 600 PM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 7:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie | 4 hr |
| Dec 16, 7:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Franklin, Red River, Titus, Wood | 4 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Red River | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:47 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Wood | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Franklin | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 5:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Titus | 6 hr |
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.