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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Sep 24, 2005, 9:54 AM CDT for Sabine County, San Augustine County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Sep 24, 2005, 9:54 AM CDT (14:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2005, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Sabine County, TX, San Augustine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 5:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KSHV 241456
TORSHV
TXC403-405-241600-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0008.050924T1454Z-050924T1600Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
954 AM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SABINE COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS
SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS
* UNTIL 1100 AM CDT
* AT 954 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADARS INDICATED
BANDS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AROUND
THE EYE OF HURRICANE RITA. THE EYE WAS LOCATED NEAR BROOKELAND
TEXAS...MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SAN AUGUSTINE...
HEMPHILL...
PINELAND...
BRONSON...
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
SABINE COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS
SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS
UNTIL 1100 AM CDT.
LAT...LON 3123 9430 3114 9411 3123 9366 3157 9384
3161 9432
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 7:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Angelina, Sabine, San Augustine | 58 min |
| Sep 24, 7:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Angelina, Sabine, San Augustine | 66 min |
| Sep 24, 8:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine | 70 min |
| Sep 24, 9:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby | 4 hr |
| Sep 24, 10:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Panola | 4 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Shelby | 2 hr |
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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.