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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 18, 2004Bowie County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2004, 6:17 PM CDT for Bowie County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 18, 2004, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bowie County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 121 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

649 
WUUS54 KSHV 182317
SVRSHV
TXC037-190015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
617 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 617 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF MAUD...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF NEW BOSTON...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MAUD BY 635 PM CDT
  REDWATER BY 655 PM CDT
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOOKS BY 705 PM CDT
  WAKE VILLAGE BY 715 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE STORM IN A STRONG
BUILDING.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 715 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3349 9455 3325 9456 3332 9404 3358 9427

$$

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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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.