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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 30, 2005Caldwell Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2005, 12:20 AM CDT for Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 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
Apr 30, 2005, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2005, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Caldwell Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 29, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2005-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 522 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2005-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
522 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVJackson63 min
Apr 29, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVOuachita60 min
Apr 29, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVUnion51 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.