Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 5:45 PM CST for Little River County, Arkansas. It was in force for 30 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, 5:45 PM CST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 30 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), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.
720 WFUS54 KSHV 042345 TORSHV ARC081-050015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 545 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LITTLE RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...FOREMAN...ASHDOWN * UNTIL 615 PM CST * AT 541 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FOREMAN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHDOWN AT 555 PM CST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... LITTLE RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS UNTIL 615 PM CST. LAT...LON 3380 9445 3363 9439 3362 9400 3375 9412 $$ 03
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 48 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes 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.