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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 282, NWS Shreveport, LA

October 31, 2005Cherokee County, Nacogdoches County, Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 31, 2005, 2:40 PM CST for Cherokee County, Nacogdoches County, Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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: Oct 31, 2005, 2:40 PM CST (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 2005, 3:32 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cherokee County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Rusk County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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
Oct 31, 11:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 31, 2:30 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 2:30 PM CST, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 31, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CST MON OCT 31 2005

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-011200-
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 CST MON OCT 31 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST
TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST...AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS
AFTERNOON...BUT LOOK FOR A SQUALL LINE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONTAL
BOUNDARY...AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  A
FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE SQUALL LINE IN NORTHEAST TEXAS MAY
BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AT THIS
TIME.

44

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:01 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
101 PM CST MON OCT 31 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1249 PM     TSTM WND DMG     12 W MAUD               33.33N 94.55W
10/31/2005                   BOWIE              TX   PUBLIC

            TREE DAMAGE REPORTED BETWEEN THE BASSETT AND SILOAM
            COMMUNITIES ALONG US HIGHWAY 67.

&&

CROSS

Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:14 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
114 PM CST MON OCT 31 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0100 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BETTIE                  32.83N 94.96W
10/31/2005                   UPSHUR             TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

            ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE

&&

DUPLANTIS

Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:42 PM CST, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 2:01 PM CST, 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 31, 12:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	36 min
Oct 31, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Morris	26 min
Oct 31, 1:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Marion, Upshur	50 min
Oct 31, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	44 min
Oct 31, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier	33 min
Oct 31, 1:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River, Miller	61 min
Oct 31, 1:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead	44 min
Oct 31, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	65 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.