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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2003, 9:44 PM CDT for Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 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, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2003, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Claiborne Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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 13, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.
000
WFUS54 KSHV 140244
TORSHV
LAC027-140345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
944 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CLAIBORNE PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
* AT 944 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6
MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYNESVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF
HOMER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
HOMER AT 1000 PM CDT
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT FOR A STURDY BUILDING...OR
GET IN A DITCH OR CULVERT.
REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
CLAIBORNE PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA
UNTIL 1045 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3301 9282 3276 9275 3261 9288 3262 9314
3280 9323 3302 9323
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Webster | 26 min |
| May 13, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 42 min |
| May 13, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 40 min |
| May 13, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 40 min |
| May 13, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 51 min |
| May 13, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Lincoln | 55 min |
| May 13, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne | 61 min |
| May 13, 11:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 52 min |
| May 13, 11:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville | 67 min |
| May 13, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson | 64 min |
| May 13, 11:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Jackson | 56 min |
| May 13, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 62 min |
| May 13, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville | 57 min |
| May 14, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto, Red River | 60 min |
| May 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Webster | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.