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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 30, 2002Sabine Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 10:11 PM CST for Sabine Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 34 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: Mar 30, 2002, 10:11 PM CST (04:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2002, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sabine 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
Mar 30, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 30, 9:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 370 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 459 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSHV 310411
TORSHV
LAC085-310445-
/NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0015.310409-310445/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1009 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM CST

* AT 1009 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER   
  RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12    
  MILES SOUTH OF PLEASANT HILL 6 MILES NORTH OF MANY...AND MOVING    
  EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLEASANT HILL AT 1030 PM CST

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  SABINE PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
UNTIL 1045 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3166 9366 3153 9351 3165 9339 3183 9352

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 7:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	65 min
Mar 30, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Ouachita	41 min
Mar 30, 7:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto	37 min
Mar 30, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	46 min
Mar 30, 8:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	53 min
Mar 30, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	61 min
Mar 30, 10:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	52 min
Mar 31, 3:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	65 min
Mar 31, 5:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	53 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.