Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2002, 11:53 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Arkansas. It was in force for 37 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
- Apr 7, 2002, 11:53 PM CDT (04:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2002, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:06 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Bradley, AR | Several large trees down near Walnut Creek and FM 3302. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSHV 080453 TORSHV ARC073-080530- /NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0026.080453-080530/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1153 PM CDT SUN APR 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1153 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRADLEY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLAIN DEALING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BRADLEY AT 1210 AM CDT REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS UNTIL 1230 AM CDT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 55 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.