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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Shreveport, LA

December 30, 2002Bowie County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 30, 2002, 5:42 PM CST for Bowie County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 30, 2002, 5:42 PM CST (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Dec 30, 2002, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bowie County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 372 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 378 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 302342
TORSHV
TXC037-310045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
539 PM CST MON DEC 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 539 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER   
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A 
TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAUD...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF NEW 
BOSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEAR MAUD AT 550 PM CST
  NEAR REDWATER AT 555 PM CST
  JUST EAST OF HOOKS AT 610 PM CST
  NEAR TEXARKANA AT 615 PM CST

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL BEAR A NICKEL 
AND DAMAGING WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH.
GO TO A SAFE PLACE.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 645 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3351 9452 3330 9446 3334 9408 3355 9408

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 30, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	34 min
Dec 30, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Morris	57 min
Dec 30, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass, Morris	30 min
Dec 30, 5:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	64 min
Dec 30, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass	45 min
Dec 30, 5:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk	62 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.