Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2006, 6:28 PM CDT for Union County, Arkansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 12, 2006, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Union County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 2364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 Aug 12, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 237 PM CDT SAT AUG 12 2006 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE OBS SHOW COLD FRONT HAS HUNG UP IN CENTRAL OK AND AR...AND LOOKS MORE AND MORE TO BE A WASH. LATEST MODEL RUNS AGREE. AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE...WATER VAPOR SHOWS A SHORT WAVE MOVING INTO CENTRAL MS. ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER ASSOCIATED W/THE SHORT WAVE IS KEEPING TEMPS TO NEAR NORMAL...BUT AREA RADARS SHOW UNORGANIZED CONVECTION DEVELOPING S OF THE FRONT. W/NO SURFACE FEATURES TO SERVE AS A FOCUS...WILL SHOTGUN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING TO CORRAL DIURNAL DEVELOPMENT. 12Z KSHV SOUNDING IS MUCH LIKE 24 HRS AGO IN THAT SHEAR AND STEERING FLOW ARE LOUSY...AND TEMPS ALOFT ARE TOO WARM TO SUPPORT LARGE HAIL. THUS...SEVERE WX IS OF MINIMAL CONCERN. PWATS REMAIN WELL OVER 2 IN...SO HEAVY RAINFALL IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING TO KEEP AN EYE ON. OTHERWISE...TEMPS REBOUND SUNDAY AS RIDGING RE-INTENSIFIES AND PERSISTENCE RESUMES. GUIDANCE REMAINS TOO COOL...AND GENERALLY STAYING ON THE WARMER SIDE SEEMS PRUDENT. A HEAT ADVISORY SEEMS A GIVEN FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...AND WILL GO AHEAD AND ISSUE FOR THE AFTERNOON HRS SUNDAY/MONDAY. STARTING MONDAY...MODELS TRY TO BRING A SHORTWAVE INTO THROUGH THE 4-STATE AREA...AND WILL INSERT SLIGHT CHANCES OF CONVECTION FOR THE NORTHERN ZONES THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. FOR THE REST OF THE FORECAST...DIRTY RIDGING AND WARM TEMPS PERSIST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 77 99 78 100 / 20 20 20 0 MLU 76 94 75 99 / 20 20 20 10 DEQ 74 97 73 99 / 20 20 20 20 TXK 78 99 77 101 / 20 20 20 0 ELD 74 95 74 100 / 20 20 20 0 TYR 77 99 77 99 / 20 20 20 0 GGG 75 98 77 101 / 20 20 20 0 LFK 73 99 73 100 / 20 20 20 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 14/44
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 12, 12:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT SAT AUG 12 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>167-131100- 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 CDT SAT AUG 12 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST...AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ALONG A COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE FOUR STATE AREA. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER...ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS WILL RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND PONDING ON ROADWAYS WHERE THE HEAVIER STORMS OCCUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. 44
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 12, 6:07 PM CDT, 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:25 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 28 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:25 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 52 hr |
| Aug 12, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 53 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.