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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 303, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2004, 9:51 PM CDT for Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 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
- Jul 25, 2004, 9:51 PM CDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ouachita Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 2776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 25, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 950 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004 .DISCUSSION... UPDATED FORECAST TO CLEAN UP WORDING. CURRENT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY NEITHER BEHAVING DIURNALLY AFTER SUNSET...NOR IS IT CHANGING IN POSITION. RAISED POPS IN MONROE GROUPING TO 50 PERCENT. POPS OVER TX/OK AREAS BASED ON LIGHT RAIN OVER PARTS OF OK...HOWEVER DO NOT EXPECT DEEP CONVECTION BEHIND FRONT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 71 88 68 92 / 20 20 0 0 MLU 71 88 66 92 / 50 20 0 0 TXK 68 87 67 92 / 10 0 0 0 TYR 68 88 68 92 / 20 20 0 0 LFK 72 90 68 93 / 30 30 20 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && VII/IV
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 12:00 PM CDT, 9 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 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>167-261100- 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 SUN JUL 25 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...EAST OF A FARMERVILLE TO WINNFIELD LINE. EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE FOUR STATE AREA. A WEAK COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM NEAR LUFKIN TO MONROE...AND THIS FRONT WILL GENERATE POTENTIALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN ITS VICINITY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...IF ANY DEVELOP...SHOULD BE ISOLATED AND BRIEF...PRIMARILY PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND PERHAPS SOME LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 25, 7:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
742 PM CDT SUN JUL 25 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0440 PM HAIL 8 NW LUFKIN 31.42N 94.82W
07/25/2004 0.75 INCH ANGELINA TX BROADCAST MEDIA
HAIL FELL AT POLLOK REPORTED BY KTRE TV
&&The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 46 min |
| Jul 25, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 57 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.