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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Shreveport, LA

December 23, 2002Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2002, 5:14 PM CST for Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. 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: Dec 23, 2002, 5:14 PM CST (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2002, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Natchitoches Parish, LA

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 23, 2:10 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 399 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 493 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSHV 232314
TORSHV
LAC069-240015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
514 PM CST MON DEC 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NATCHITOCHES PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 514 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NATCHITOCHES...OR
  ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF MANY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NATCHITOCHES AT 530 PM CST

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

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  NATCHITOCHES PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
UNTIL 615 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3171 9332 3154 9324 3160 9293 3188 9315

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 1:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	23 min
Dec 23, 1:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	56 min
Dec 23, 4:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	33 min
Dec 23, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Winn	61 min
Dec 23, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	65 min
Dec 23, 5:04 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	4 hr
Dec 23, 5:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	52 min

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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.