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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 10, 2003Bowie County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2003, 8:17 PM CDT for Bowie County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 10, 2003, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Miller County, AR, Bowie County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 2842 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 5.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

057 
WUUS54 KSHV 110117
SVRSHV
ARC091-TXC037-110200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
817 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 817 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NASH...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  WEST OF TEXARKANA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  2 MILES NORTHWEST OF TEXARKANA AT 825 PM CDT
  4 MILES NORTHWEST OF TEXARKANA AT 830 PM CDT

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 
MPH.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3344 9429 3332 9376 3354 9383 3354 9417

$$

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 Jun 10, 3:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
323 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

LOOKS LIKE A RATHER PERSISTENT SOUTHERLY FETCH THE NEXT NUMBER OF
DAYS AS BERMUDA HIGH TRIES TO KEEP FRONTS NORTH OF AREA...WHILE
SHORTWAVE SERIES COMING THROUGH ROCKIES WILL TEND TO KEEP LEE
TROFFING IN PLACE WHICH LIKEWISE HELPS OUR SOUTHERLY FLOW AND KEEPS
FRONTS NORTH OF AREA. A GENERAL RIDGE WILL TAKE HOLD OF THE COUNTRY
BY WEEKEND BUT A WEAK CUTOFF LOW WILL GET TRAPPED OVER THE SOUTHERN
PLAINS...THUS KEEPING THE SLIGHT CHANCES IN THROUGH THE EXTENDED
PERIOD.

HEAVIER RAIN POSSIBLE TONIGHT N OF I 30...WILL GO 50 PERCENT THERE
TONIGHT. NORTHERN THIRD OF AREA SEEMS TO HAVE BETTER CHANCE OF PRECIP
THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...WITH INFLUENCE OF NEARING FRONT...
DISTURBANCES...AND SOON THE WEAK UPPER LOW THAT WILL GET TRAPPED
NEARBY. WILL GO WITH CHC POPS N THROUGH SUNDAY. 17

SHV 74/89/74/89/73 23333
MLU 75/88/73/88/72 23333
TXK 74/88/74/88/73 34433
TYR 74/90/75/89/74 33333
LFK 74/90/74/90/74 22233

.SHV...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 12:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 17 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>167-111100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS...IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	59 min
Jun 11, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Red River	66 min
Jun 11, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Titus	54 min
Jun 11, 5:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Morris	58 min
Jun 10, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	53 min
Jun 10, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	61 min
Jun 10, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Little River, Sevier	52 min
Jun 11, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	49 min
Jun 11, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette	48 min
Jun 11, 6:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Nevada	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.