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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2008, 12:48 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 19, 2008, 12:48 AM CDT (05:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2008, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1086 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
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 Mar 18, 11:48 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 11:48 PM CDT, 1 hour before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1203 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2008 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-191100- 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- 1203 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...EVENING AND PORTIONS OF THE OVERNIGHT HOURS OVER THE FOUR STATE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP AND REACH OR EXCEED SEVERE LIMITS...WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY GUSTY WINDS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORM CLUSTERS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...AND THEN OTHER ISOLATED SUPER CELL THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME TORNADIC. IN ADDITION...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LUFKIN... TEXAS TO FARMERVILLE...LOUISIANA LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER...HAM RADIO OPERATOR...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. 24
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 18, 6:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
657 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0637 PM TSTM WND DMG LOCKESBURG 33.97N 94.17W
03/18/2008 SEVIER AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN IN LOCKESBURG. REPORTS STILL
COMING IN FROM OTHER AREAS IN THE COUNTY.
&&
04Local storm report, Mar 18, 8:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
831 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0820 PM FLASH FLOOD JACKSONVILLE 31.97N 95.26W
03/18/2008 CHEROKEE TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
STREET FLOODING REPORTED IN PARTS OF JACKSONVILLE
&&
04Local storm report, Mar 18, 8:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
852 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0833 PM FLASH FLOOD NASHVILLE 33.94N 93.85W
03/18/2008 HOWARD AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
ONE FOOT OF WATER COVERING HIGHWAY 371W AT DILLARD CREEK.
0840 PM FLASH FLOOD 8 S NASHVILLE 33.83N 93.85W
03/18/2008 HOWARD AR LAW ENFORCEMENT
1 TO 2 FEET OF WATER COVERING ROAD AT HWY 355 AT COUNTY
LINE RD SOUTH.
&&
18Local storm report, Mar 18, 10:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Rusk, Smith | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, Upshur | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola, Rusk | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion | 23 min |
| Mar 18, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 41 min |
| Mar 19, 8:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Wood | 4 days |
| Mar 19, 1:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 4 days |
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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.