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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 6, 2003Panola County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2003, 1:17 PM CDT for Panola County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2003, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Panola 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.

194 
WFUS54 KSHV 061817
TORSHV
TXC365-061900-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 117 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL PANOLA
  COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL WESTERN PANOLA COUNTY AT 130 PM CDT
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN PANOLA COUNTY AT 140 PM CDT
  RURAL NORTHERN PANOLA COUNTY AT 150 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...
  PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 200 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3226 9454 3203 9456 3216 9411 3235 9448

$$

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, 12:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Rusk	38 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.