Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 1:20 AM CST for Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 40 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
- Nov 24, 2001, 1:20 AM CST (07:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 1:35 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Clarks, LA | Damage was confined to small trees and tree limbs. This tornado did not cross any Parish line. |
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 24, 1:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
440 WFUS54 KSHV 240721 TORSHV LAC021-240800- /NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0006.240720-240800/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 120 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALDWELL PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA * UNTIL 200 AM CST * AT 120 AM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SPAULDING...MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OVER CLARKS AT 135 AM CST OVER GRAYSON AT 140 AM CST OVER COLUMBIA AT 150 AM CST IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT FOR A STURDY BUILDING...OR GET IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALDWELL PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA UNTIL 200 AM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 11:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Jackson | 56 min |
| Nov 23, 11:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 58 min |
| Nov 24, 12:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 1:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Winn | 28 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.