Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2003, 6:49 PM CDT for Howard County, Sevier County, Arkansas. It was in force for 56 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
- May 13, 2003, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Howard County, AR, Sevier County, AR
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 13, 6:20 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:20 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 620 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 UPDATED TO INCLUDE WATCH #362 FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS...MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ALL OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. UPPED POPS A LITTLE IN THESE COUNTIES AS WELL. NO OTHER CHANGES. 13 .SHV...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 12:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 49 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-141100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT...GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INTO NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING AND MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE FOUR STATE REGION TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. WEAK LOW-LEVEL SHEAR WILL KEEP THE TORNADO THREAT LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY.
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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.