Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2004, 5:18 PM CST for Cherokee County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- Mar 4, 2004, 5:18 PM CST (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherokee County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSHV 042318 SVRSHV TXC073-050015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 517 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF RUSK * UNTIL 615 PM CST * AT 516 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSONVILLE TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUSK...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TYLER TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF PALESTINE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... JACKSONVILLE BY 550 PM CST RUSK BY 610 PM CST ALTO BY 615 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 615 PM CST. LAT...LON 3212 9563 3148 9568 3145 9503 3207 9499 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith, Wood | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Red River, Titus | 47 min |
| Mar 4, 4:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Red River | 40 min |
| Mar 4, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Smith | 61 min |
| Mar 4, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Upshur | 41 min |
| Mar 4, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Morris | 52 min |
| Mar 4, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Rusk | 49 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.