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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 9, 2007McCurtain County, Oklahoma

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2007, 8:57 PM CST for McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2007, 8:57 PM CST (02:57 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2007, 10:00 PM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McCurtain County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 9, 9:05 PM CSTHAIL 0.883 Ene Broken Bow, OKUS 70.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 9, 3:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2007-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2007-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KSHV 100257
SVRSHV
OKC089-100400-
/O.NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0021.070310T0257Z-070310T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
857 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CST

* AT 857 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF BROKEN BOW LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
  HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND QUARTERS EARLIER NEAR BATTIEST AND
  NEAR BROKEN BOW LAKE. 

* BROKEN BOW...EAGLETOWN AND HAWORTH ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE 
  THUNDERSTORM.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
UNTIL 1000 PM CST.

LAT...LON 3419 9474 3398 9491 3381 9490 3370 9459
      3367 9450 3417 9447

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS54 KSHV 100319
SVSSHV

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
918 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2007

OKC089-100400-
/O.CON.KSHV.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070310T0400Z/
MCCURTAIN OK-
918 PM CST FRI MAR 9 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST
FOR MCCURTAIN COUNTY...

AT 918 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAWORTH...MOVING SOUTH
EAST AT 35 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED EARLIER WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM EARLIER EAST OF BROKEN BOW OKLAHOMA. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BOKHOMA...AMERICA AND TOM

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST
FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS.

LAT...LON 3405 9479 3398 9480 3379 9480 3370 9459
      3367 9450 3407 9449

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 7:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMcCurtain61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.