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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 18, 2004Little River County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT for Little River County, Arkansas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Little River County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 2069 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 18, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
235 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

.DISCUSSION...
INTERESTING CHANGES IN WEATHER PATTERN TAKING SHAPE AS OMEGA BLOCK
FORMING OVER PACIFIC NW WILL ALLOW CANADIAN COLD FRONT TO ENTER
STATES VIA MT AND ND REGION OF HIGH PLAINS. THESE FRONTS WILL SLOW
DOWN AND DIMINISH AS FLOW UPPER FLOW BECOMES MORE WESTERLY ACROSS
CENTRAL PLAINS. HOWEVER...REMNANTS MAY REACH AS FAR SOUTH AS THE
RED RIVER VALLEY BORDERING NE TX/SE OK. THIS IS CURRENTLY THE CASE
WITH COLD FRONT OVER CENTRAL OK...AND AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY BRINGING
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO RED RIVER VALLEY.
INCREASING POPS THROUGH MOST OF WEEKEND DUE THESE OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES...AND POSSIBLY THE FRONT ITSELF. ANOTHER FRONT ARRIVES
MONDAY NIGHT OR TUESDAY...AND YET ANOTHER NEXT WEEKEND.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV  74  92  72  89 /  10  40  40  50
MLU  74  90  72  88 /   0  30  30  40
TXK  74  91  72  88 /  30  50  30  40
TYR  74  91  71  89 /  10  40  40  50
LFK  77  92  71  91 /   0  30  30  40

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.

&&

VII

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 12:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-191100-
ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE-
CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD-
HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION-
MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA-
PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX-
SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR-
WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD-
1200 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY REGION BORDERING SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND
NORTHEAST TEXAS. ISOLATED STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SMALL HAIL. ACROSS LOUISIANA...AND PORTIONS
OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT
MAY POSSIBLY OCCUR WILL REMAIN VERY ISOLATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS WEEKEND ALONG A WEAK
FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS IT PUSHES SOUTHWARD TOWARD THE REGION.
HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME FOR THIS AFTERNOON OR
EVENING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	61 min
Jun 18, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison	61 min
Jun 18, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	46 min
Jun 18, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	34 min
Jun 18, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	58 min
Jun 18, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.