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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 9, 2002Howard County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2002, 11:59 PM CDT for Howard County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 2002, 11:59 PM CDT (04:59 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2002, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:59 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.

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 nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 3256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KSHV 100459
SVRSHV
ARC061-100600-
/NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0140.100459-100600/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1159 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1159 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MINERAL SPRINGS...OR
  ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER...
  RURAL EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY AT 1210 AM CDT

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.
DO NOT REMAIN OUTSIDE.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 100 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3391 9404 3377 9395 3394 9386 3432 9366

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 May 9, 11:20 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 11:20 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1120 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

QUICK UPDATE TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF AREA...
ALONG AND NORTH OF A COLD FRONT. HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAVE BEEN
REPORTED IN STORMS...WHICH DEVELOPED RAPIDLY AS EASTWARD MOVING JET
STREAK TRAVERSED ACROSS TX.

VII

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 10:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1025 PM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0955 PM    TYLER                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          TROOP HWY AT EAST SOUTHEAST LOOP                                        SOUTHEAST LOOP
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT                                   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0955 PM    TYLER                     TX   .88 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          64 EAST AT THE LOOP
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT                                        ENFORCEMENT

1005 PM    8 S TYLER                 TX   .88 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   SMITH                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	57 min
May 9, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nevada	61 min
May 9, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	57 min
May 10, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	62 min
May 10, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	63 min
May 10, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia	61 min
May 10, 5:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	62 min
May 10, 6:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.