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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 25, 2003Cherokee County, Smith County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2003, 10:03 PM CST for Cherokee County, Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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 25, 2003, 10:03 PM CST (04:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2003, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cherokee County, TX, Smith County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 25, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 750 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1184 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

548 
WUUS54 KSHV 260403
SVRSHV
TXC073-423-260445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1001 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  SMITH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1045 PM CST

* AT 1001 PM CST...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WHITEHOUSE...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF TYLER.  ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT
  10 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSONVILLE.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 
  30 MPH.  

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  SMITH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 1045 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3233 9542 3203 9542 3203 9500 3236 9501
          3243 9513

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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 Mar 25, 9:40 PM CST, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 9:40 PM CST, 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
940 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003

A LONG NIGHT OF CONTINUED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN STORE FOR AREA
WITH NEW SVR TSTM WATCH ISSUED UNTIL 2 AM FOR MOST OF NW LA AND NE
TX. AREA OF STORMS NOT PROGRESSING MUCH...HAVING BARELY REACHED
EXTREME NORTH AND NW TIER OF LA. MODELS INDICATE UPPER DIVERGENCE
INDUCED LIFT TO MAINTAIN FAIRLY STEADY INTENSITY NEAR FRONTAL ZONE.
STORMS PREDOMINANT HAILERS...SEVERAL REPORTS OF GOLFBALL OR LESS
SIZE. RAISED SOME MIN TEMPS SLIGHTLY DUE TO LACK OF EXPECTED COLD
FRONTAL PUSH BEFORE DAYBREAK.

VII

.SHV..SVR TSTM WATCH FOR TXZ-067-459-315-423-183-203-073-
401-365-347-419-005-405-403-LAZ-017-015-119-027-111-031-
081-013-061-049-073-085-069-

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 12:00 PM CST, 10 hours 3 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>167-261200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CST TUE MAR 25 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 WILL BE A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE FOUR
STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL STORM
SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE
PRIMARY SEVERE FEATURE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO BECOME
SEVERE...HOWEVER STRONG AND DAMAGING WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE FOUR STATE
REGION ON FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE POSSIBLE AS A STRONG COLD FRONT ENTERS THE REGION.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 25, 6:35 PM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
635 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0550 PM    CLARKSVILLE               TX   .88 INCH HAIL
03/25/03   RED RIVER                      REPORT FROM LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0625 PM    AVERY                     TX   .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03   RED RIVER                      REPORT FROM GENERAL PUBLIC

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Local storm report, Mar 25, 7:50 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
750 PM CST TUE MAR 25 2003

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0635 PM    BOXELDER                  TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
03/25/03   RED RIVER                      REPORT FROM LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0735 PM    ARGO                      TX   .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03   TITUS                          REPORT FROM LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0740 PM    12 W ASHDOWN              AR   .75 INCH HAIL
03/25/03   LITTLE RIVER                   REPORT FROM LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 6:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	29 min
Mar 25, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	25 min
Mar 25, 7:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Titus	44 min
Mar 25, 8:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Morris	41 min
Mar 25, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	50 min
Mar 25, 10:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Rusk	61 min
Mar 26, 1:48 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee	3 hr

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.