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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2008, 5:03 PM CDT for Angelina County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- Apr 1, 2008, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Angelina County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 859 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 Apr 1, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 31, 7:05 PM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 115 min |
| Mar 31, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 43 min |
| Apr 1, 9:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Franklin, Morris, Titus | 6 days |
| Apr 1, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 60 min |
| Mar 31, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 40 min |
| Apr 1, 12:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 36 min |
| Apr 1, 8:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Union | 41 days |
Nearby
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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.