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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Shreveport, LA

July 11, 2003Shelby County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2003, 8:25 AM CDT for Shelby County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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: Jul 11, 2003, 8:25 AM CDT (13:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2003, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Shelby County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:27 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 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 2288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

005 
WUUS54 KSHV 111325
SVRSHV
TXC419-111430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
824 AM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SHELBY COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 930 AM CDT

* AT 824 AM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER    
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HUXLEY...OR ABOUT       
  16 MILES SOUTH OF LOGANSPORT...MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE OVER...
  RURAL EASTERN SHELBY COUNTY AT 840 AM CDT

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.
DO NOT REMAIN OUTSIDE.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SHELBY COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS
UNTIL 930 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3179 9403 3189 9391 3185 9387 3178 9382
          3168 9382 3164 9390

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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 Jul 11, 6:12 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:12 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
612 AM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE INCREASED ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST AND
SOUTH...UPDATED TO RAISE CHANCE OF RAIN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST.

IV

PREVIOUS NUMBERS...

SHV 94/73/95/74 2122
MLU 93/72/94/74 2122
TXK 95/74/95/75 1123
TYR 95/75/95/74 1122
LFK 94/74/95/73 2122

.SHV...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 6:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 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>167-111700-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 AM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH LOUISIANA AND THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS
OF NORTHEAST TEXAS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND OUT OF THE REGION
BY MIDDAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG AND POSSIBLY
DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOURS TIME. ONCE THESE STORMS MOVE
OUT OF THE REGION...WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE
MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
DUE TO THE BRIEF NATURE OF ANY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...ACTIVATION OF
EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...IS NOT
ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>003-010-011-017-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-
108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-112100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
420 AM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

...HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON...

TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB INTO THE MID 90S THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS EAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...MCCURTAIN COUNTY
IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND THE WESTERN HALF OF NORTHWEST
LOUISIANA.

THESE TEMPERATURES WHEN COMBINED WITH THE HUMIDITY WILL
PRODUCE HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON.

THE EFFECTS OF THE HEAT CAN BE MINIMIZED BY REDUCING OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES...DRINKING PLENTY OF WATER OR NON-ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES...AND WEARING LIGHT-COLORED CLOTHING. IF
POSSIBLE...SPEND TIME IN AIR CONDITIONED FACILITIES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 8:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Shelby	4 hr
Jul 11, 10:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	60 min
Jul 11, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	45 min
Jul 11, 11:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.