Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 4:50 PM CST for Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Red River County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
780 WFUS54 KSHV 042250 TORSHV TXC387-042330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 448 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RED RIVER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CLARKSVILLE * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 445 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BOGATA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLARKSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLARKSVILLE BY 455 PM CST DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... RED RIVER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 530 PM CST. LAT...LON 3344 9536 3343 9505 3358 9487 3385 9511 $$
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, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Smith | 61 min |
| Mar 4, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 57 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 |
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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.