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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 19, 2002, 3:53 AM CST for Bienville Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2002, 3:53 AM CST (09:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2002, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bienville Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 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.
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 19, 2:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1623 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
281 WFUS54 KSHV 190953 TORSHV LAC013-069-191045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 352 AM CST THU DEC 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BIENVILLE PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA NATCHITOCHES PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 445 AM CST * AT 352 AM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER ASHLAND...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF COUSHATTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SALINE AT 415 AM CST LUCKY AT 420 AM CST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT FOR A STURDY BUILDING...OR GET IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... BIENVILLE PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA NATCHITOCHES PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA UNTIL 445 AM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 6:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 33 min |
| Dec 18, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 45 min |
| Dec 18, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 25 min |
| Dec 18, 9:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Webster | 4 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Lincoln | 42 min |
| Dec 19, 4:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Jackson, Lincoln | 42 min |
| Dec 19, 6:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant | 64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.