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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2003, 9:14 PM CDT for Columbia County, Arkansas. It was in force for 46 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 13, 2003, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Columbia County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 18.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
538
WFUS54 KSHV 140214
TORSHV
ARC027-140300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
913 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 913 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
RADAR INDICATED A PAIR OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
TORNADOES 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MCNEIL AND 12 MILES WEST OF
MAGNOLIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
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...
COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3345 9311 3337 9309 3337 9298 3303 9298
3303 9339 3314 9347 3344 9335
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 45 min |
| May 13, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead | 67 min |
| May 13, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nevada | 59 min |
| May 13, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 62 min |
| May 13, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 35 min |
| May 13, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 58 min |
| May 13, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 37 min |
| May 13, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 37 min |
| May 13, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 60 min |
| May 14, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 23 min |
| May 14, 2:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 4 hr |
| May 14, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard | 53 min |
| May 14, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sevier | 39 min |
| May 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 63 min |
| May 14, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 64 min |
| May 14, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 56 min |
Nearby
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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.