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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 28, 2005Angelina County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2005, 7:38 PM CDT for Angelina County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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: May 28, 2005, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2005, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Angelina County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KSHV 290039
TORSHV
TXC005-290145-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0004.050529T0038Z-050529T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
738 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ANGELINA COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 734 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 23 MILES WEST OF
  ZAVALLA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF DIBOLL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ZAVALLA BY 810 PM CDT

TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN TRINITY COUNTY EARLIER.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
  ANGELINA COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS
UNTIL 845 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3110 9463 3111 9476 3114 9482 3116 9482
      3117 9476 3117 9460 3119 9458 3121 9431
      3110 9416 3103 9449

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KSHV 290116
SVSSHV

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
815 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005

TXC005-290145-
/O.CON.KSHV.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050529T0145Z/
ANGELINA TX-
815 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR ANGELINA
COUNTY...

AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ZAVALLA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF CHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ZAVALLA BY 840 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

LAT...LON 3110 9463 3111 9476 3114 9482 3116 9482
      3117 9476 3117 9460 3119 9458 3121 9431
      3110 9416 3103 9449

$$

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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.