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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 6, 2003Wood County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 11:41 PM CDT for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 6, 2003, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2003, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 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 6, 11:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 2206 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 303 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 11.5

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The text

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

343 
WFUS54 KSHV 070441
TORSHV
TXC499-070545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1141 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1141 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL WOOD COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUITMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN WOOD COUNTY AT MIDNIGHT CDT

THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO THAT IS OBSCURED BY RAIN...
AND DIFFICULT TO SEE.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR
LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 1245 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3276 9547 3263 9531 3276 9516 3292 9519
          3296 9529

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Wood	63 min
May 6, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Upshur	52 min
May 7, 12:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Upshur	56 min
May 7, 12:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	61 min
May 7, 1:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	46 min
May 7, 4:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie	3 hr

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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.