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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 5, 2003Howard County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT for Howard County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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: May 5, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, AR

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 5, 10:40 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 5, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 3415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.2
Supercell composite: 18.9

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The text

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

035 
WFUS54 KSHV 052045
TORSHV
ARC061-052115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
345 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 345 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  NASHVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 415 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3414 9382 3383 9388 3395 9403

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 11:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	52 min
May 5, 11:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette	49 min
May 5, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Nevada	60 min
May 5, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette, Nevada	37 min
May 5, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	41 min
May 5, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River	48 min
May 5, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	63 min
May 5, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette	50 min
May 5, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	38 min
May 5, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	53 min
May 5, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	56 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.