Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 10, 2002Columbia County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2002, 3:14 AM CDT for Columbia County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports 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: May 10, 2002, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2002, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Columbia County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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
May 10, 3:30 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Magnolia, AR
May 10, 3:40 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Mc Neil, AR

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
May 9, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KSHV 100814
SVRSHV
ARC027-100915-
/NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0148.100809-100915/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
313 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 AM CDT

* AT 309 AM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WALDO...
  OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF MAGNOLIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WALDO...4 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAGNOLIA AT 320 AM CDT
  OVER MCNEIL AT 330 AM CDT

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN 
DIAMETER.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 415 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3326 9347 3313 9337 3329 9303 3345 9323

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 10, 3:00 AM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 3:00 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED TEMPERATURES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
300 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002

EARLY THIS MORNING THE FRONTAL SYSTEM THAT HAD MOVED INTO THE
REGION REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS N LA AND INTO E TX FROM
AROUND MLU TO SHV AND TYR. ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS FRONT SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE EAST AND NORTHEAST.
THE FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL BE SLOW TO LEAVE THE AREA TODAY BUT DOES
BEGIN MOVING TO THE NORTH THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. UPPER
DISTURBANCES MOVING OVER THE REGION FROM THE WEST WILL COMBINE
WITH LIFT OVER THE FRONT AND PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
DURING THE DAY. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHERE THEY DO DEVELOP. TEMPERATURES WILL
BE COOLER TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT DUE CLOUD COVER...RAIN...AND
COOLER AIR FROM SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE OHIO AND TENNESSEE
VALLEYS. THE FRONT WILL LIFT WELL NORTH OF THE FOUR STATE REGION
BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AND WITH INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET
SPEEDS TEMPERATURES WILL REBOUND QUICKLY AND REACH INTO THE
80S AND NEAR 90 BY AFTERNOON. THE NEXT COLD FRONT WILL ENTER THE
NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA DURING THE NIGHT
SUNDAY AND OUT OF THE REGION BY LATE MONDAY.

SHV 084/068 087/069 088 5320
MLU 081/067 087/069 087 5220
TXK 077/065 086/069 086 7430
TYR 083/068 087/070 087 6220
LFK 087/069 088/070 089 3200

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 10:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 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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Local storm report, May 10, 12:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1210 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002

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

1050 PM    3 W GLADEWATER            TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   GREGG                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1058 PM    UNION GROVE               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   UPSHUR                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1140 PM    10 SE TEXARKANA           AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   MILLER                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1140 PM    TEXARKANA                 AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   MILLER                         6 E HWY 82 REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1155 PM    TEXARKANA                 AR   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   MILLER                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1155 PM    BODCAW                    AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   NEVADA                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, May 10, 1:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
117 AM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002

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

1105 PM    5 SW TEXARKANA            TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/02   BOWIE                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1205 AM    NASHVILLE                 AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/10/02   HOWARD                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1210 AM    SARATOGA                  AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/10/02   HOWARD                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1215 AM    WASHINGTON                AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/10/02   HEMPSTEAD                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0105 AM    NEW BOSTON                TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/10/02   BOWIE                          REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT

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 9, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard	61 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, 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

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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.