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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 14, 2006Cherokee County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2006, 7:45 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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: May 14, 2006, 7:45 AM CDT (12:45 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2006, 8:45 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherokee County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 14, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 1292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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 May 14, 6:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 6:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
613 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

.UPDATE...
SEVERE TSTM WATCH HAS BEEN REPLACED...COVERING ALL BUT EXTREME
NORTH PARTS OF AREA. SEVERE STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP...MAINLY
ACROSS EAST TEXAS.

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.
&&

VII

Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-141700-
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-
600 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING THIS
MORNING...MOSTLY SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR IN NORTHEAST
TEXAS...AND SOUTH OF THE ARKANSAS BORDER. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY
PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF...AND A FEW STORMS COULD
CONTAIN BRIEF BUT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM
REDEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE CONFINED TO MAINLY SOUTH OF
THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...
LITTLE IF ANY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED UNTIL THE APPROACH
OF THE UPCOMING WEEKEND.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM
SPOTTERS COULD POSSIBLY BE REACTIVATED THIS MORNING ACROSS
NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA.

VII

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 14, 6:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
642 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

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

0545 AM     HAIL             MINEOLA                 32.67N 95.49W
05/14/2006  E0.75 INCH       WOOD               TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LASTING 10 MIN

&&

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Local storm report, May 14, 7:01 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
701 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

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

0620 AM     HAIL             1 S TYLER               32.31N 95.30W
05/14/2006  E0.75 INCH       SMITH              TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            I MILE SOUTH OF TYLER POUNDS FIELD

&&

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Local storm report, May 14, 7:04 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
704 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

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

0625 AM     HAIL             TYLER                   32.33N 95.30W
05/14/2006  E1.00 INCH       SMITH              TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SW LOOP

&&

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Local storm report, May 14, 7:05 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
705 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

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

0628 AM     HAIL             NOONDAY                 32.24N 95.40W
05/14/2006  E1.00 INCH       SMITH              TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, May 14, 7:09 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
709 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

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

0630 AM     HAIL             WHITEHOUSE              32.23N 95.22W
05/14/2006  E1.00 INCH       SMITH              TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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Local storm report, May 14, 7:37 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
737 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006

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

0720 AM     HAIL             3 E HUNTINGTON          31.28N 94.53W
05/14/2006  E0.75 INCH       ANGELINA           TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

0725 AM     HAIL             3 W CUSHING             31.81N 94.89W
05/14/2006  E1.00 INCH       NACOGDOCHES        TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL FELL IN SACUL.

&&

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 12:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	37 min
May 14, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	59 min
May 14, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Wood	64 min
May 14, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	54 min
May 14, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Wood	17 min
May 14, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	36 min
May 14, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	36 min
May 14, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin	36 min
May 14, 5:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	43 min
May 14, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith, Wood	48 min
May 14, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith	61 min
May 14, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk	57 min
May 14, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	64 min
May 14, 6:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	San Augustine	46 min
May 14, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches	39 min
May 14, 7:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	45 min
May 14, 7:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina	48 min
May 14, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches	61 min
May 14, 7:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina	62 min
May 14, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	40 min
May 14, 4:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	57 min
May 14, 4:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	64 min
May 14, 5:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Webster	67 min
May 14, 5:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville	59 min
May 14, 8:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	55 min
May 14, 8:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	37 min
May 13, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	38 min
May 14, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	51 min
May 14, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Miller	61 min
May 14, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette	43 min
May 14, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia	27 min

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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.