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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 6, 2003Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2003, 12:52 PM CDT for Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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: Apr 6, 2003, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2003, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rusk County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 6, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 405 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 20.3

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The text

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

362 
WFUS54 KSHV 061752
TORSHV
TXC401-061830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1252 PM CDT SUN APR 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1252 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL RUSK COUNTY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL CENTRAL RUSK COUNTY AT 110 PM CDT

TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TYPE OF THUNDERSTORM USUALLY OCCUR ON
THE EAST...TO SOUTH...PART OF THE STORM.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 130 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3208 9496 3188 9494 3191 9459 3232 9467

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 11:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin	62 min
Apr 6, 12:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Titus	63 min
Apr 6, 12:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	59 min
Apr 6, 1:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin	115 min
Apr 6, 1:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Titus	119 min
Apr 6, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	53 min
Apr 6, 1:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola	43 min
Apr 6, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches	51 min
Apr 6, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	San Augustine	49 min
Apr 6, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	42 min
Apr 6, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	48 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.