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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Shreveport, LA

December 30, 2002Smith County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 30, 2002, 5:11 PM CST for Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Dec 30, 2002, 5:11 PM CST (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Dec 30, 2002, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Smith County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 30, 5:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Whitehouse, TX	Numerous trees and several power lines blown 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 30, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 372 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

986 
WUUS54 KSHV 302311
SVRSHV
TXC423-310015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
510 PM CST MON DEC 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SMITH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 510 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF TYLER...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  OVER TYLER AT 520 PM CST
  7 MILES NORTH OF WHITEHOUSE AT 530 PM CST
  5 MILES NORTH OF ARP AT 545 PM CST

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH AND HAIL THE SIZE 
OF DIMES OR LARGER.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SMITH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 615 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3261 9557 3239 9550 3217 9541 3218 9503
          3251 9501

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 Dec 30, 3:20 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 30, 3:20 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
320 PM CST MON DEC 30 2002

DEEP UPPER LOW MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TX THIS AFTERNOON. THE
CONTINUED MORE SOUTHERLY TRACK OF THE ETA SEEMING IN LINE WITH
THE RUC...AND SHOULD KEEP MOST OF THE ROTATIONAL SHEAR SOUTH OF
AREA. WILL MAKE A MENTION OF SEVERE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 FOR
TONIGHT...DUE TO THIS POSSIBILITY...AND IN LINE WITH EXPECTED
EASTWARD ADVANCEMENT OF CURRENT TOR WATCH CENTRAL TX. INTENSE
CONVECTION FURTHER NORTH WILL SHIFT EASTWARD ALONG RED RIVER VALLEY
REGION. UPPER LEVEL DIFFUENCE TO THE NE OF UPPER LOW IS DRIVING
MECHANISM FOR THESE STORMS...YIELDING A THREAT OF VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND SOME HAIL. LIGHTNING DISPLAY RATHER INTENSE AS WELL ACROSS A
WIDE SWATH OF NORTH TX/EASTERN OK. AT THIS POINT IT MAY BE HARD TO
DISCERN WHERE MINIMAL SEVERE THREAT MAY BE...OR WHETHER THE ACTIVITY
STALLS DUE TO DEEP SW FLOW. THUS...WILL MENTION SEVERE AREAWIDE FOR
ALL OF TONIGHT PERIOD. FLOOD WATCH WILL BE EXTENDED THROUGH TONIGHT
AND TAKE IN FINAL REMAINING PORTIONS OF LA...WITH FLOOD GUIDANCE
RUNNING ABOUT 2 INCHES IN THREE HOURS ACROSS MOST OF AREA. AS COLD
FRONT MOVES IN BEHIND CONVECTIVE COMPLEX TOMORROW AFTERNOON...
PORTIONS OF LA SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 MAY RECOVER AND DESTABILIZE
AS SUNSHINE BREAKS OUT AHEAD OF FRONT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT TUESDAY AFTERNOON WILL HAVE GOOD POTENTIAL FOR HAIL IN
MODERATELY STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES.

VII

SHV 57/61/43/56  7300
MLU 60/64/46/56  9530
TXK 51/58/42/55  8500
TYR 50/57/40/56  7300
LFK 56/60/44/58  7300

Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 30, 6:00 AM CST, 11 hours 11 minutes before

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-301800-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 AM CST MON DEC 30 2002

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH
TONIGHT...MAINLY SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR ACROSS
NORTHEAST TEXAS...EXTREME SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...AND NORTH LOUISIANA.
THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE THAT OF STRAIGHT LINE WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL.  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AREAWIDE
THROUGH TONIGHT.  IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL
BE THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
WHICH COULD PRODUCE SOME FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...
THERE WILL BE THE CHANCE FOR SOME RAINFALL ON TUESDAY TO WRAP AROUND
BEHIND THE FRONTAL SYSTEM.  HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS
EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

20

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 30, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	34 min
Dec 30, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Morris	57 min
Dec 30, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass, Morris	30 min
Dec 30, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass	45 min
Dec 30, 5:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bowie	63 min
Dec 30, 5:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk	62 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.