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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 3, 2006, 11:05 AM CST for Red River Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 40 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
- Feb 3, 2006, 11:05 AM CST (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2006, 11:45 AM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Red River Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 3, 10:00 AM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 10:00 AM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CST FRI FEB 3 2006 .UPDATE... SURFACE OBSERVATIONS SHOW COLD FRONT IS STILL IN CENTRAL OK AT 15Z...W/OVERCAST SKIES AHEAD OF IT. 12Z KSHV SOUNDING SHOWS AS MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...W/EMBEDDED -TSRA JUST SW OF KTYR AND STARTING TO FIRE ELSEWHERE. WILL UPDATE TO MENTION THIS...AND ADJUST GRIDS TO CURRENT CONDITIONS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 442 AM CST FRI FEB 3 2006) DISCUSSION... A FRONTAL BOUNDARY JUST NORTH OF I30 THIS MORNING WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY...AS AN ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL TROUGH SWINGS THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS EVENING. UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY WILL TRY TO SQUEEZE SOME PRECIPITATION OUT OF THE AIRMASS...BUT LIGHT RAIN AND SHOWERS MAY BE ALL THAT IS GENERATED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA TODAY. MODELS DO SHOW A SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING AROUND WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS MORNING...THIS FEATURE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF THIS HAPPENS SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE OBSERVED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. GUIDANCE THINKS CLOUDS AND RAIN SHOULD HOLD MAX TEMPS DOWN WITH APPROACHING FRONT THIS AFTERNOON...SO NO MORE THAN A TEN DEGREE WARM UP HAS BEEN FORECASTED FOR TODAY. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE APPROACHES MONDAY PUTTING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE FORECAST...OTHERWISE A MOSTLY DRY FORECAST IS ON TAP THROUGH MUCH OF THE SEVEN DAY FORECAST. ELEVEN && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 17/44
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 3, 6:00 AM CST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 10:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 42 min |
| Feb 3, 11:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell | 56 min |
| Feb 3, 11:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 34 min |
| Feb 3, 12:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Winn | 43 min |
| Feb 3, 12:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.