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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 30, 2002Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 5:17 PM CST for Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 30, 2002, 5:17 PM CST (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2002, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Rusk County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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
Mar 30, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado F1	Reklaw, TX	Damage was confined to felled pine trees, broken tree tops and tree limbs. This tornado continued from Cherokee County, TX.
Mar 30, 5:27 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Henderson, TX

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
Mar 30, 1:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 1471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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

061 
WFUS54 KSHV 302317
TORSHV
TXC401-310000-
/NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0006.302315-310000/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
515 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 515 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER    
  RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER 
  EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH  
  RUSK COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 45 MINUTES.  

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHWESTERN RUSK COUNTY AT 520 PM CST
  RURAL SOUTHERN RUSK COUNTY AT 540 PM CST

THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO THAT IS OBSCURED BY RAIN...
AND DIFFICULT TO SEE.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  RUSK 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
Mar 30, 3:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	55 min
Mar 30, 5:29 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Red River	6 hr
Mar 30, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	37 min
Mar 30, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	47 min
Mar 30, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	41 min
Mar 30, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches	47 min
Mar 30, 5:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	54 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.