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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 412, NWS Shreveport, LA

July 13, 2008Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2008, 6:14 PM CDT for Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 61 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: Jul 13, 2008, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2008, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 13, 6:13 PM CDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 6:13 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
403 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 2008

ARZ059-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108-111-112-132200-
BOWIE-CASS-FRANKLIN-LITTLE RIVER-MCCURTAIN-MORRIS-RED RIVER-
403 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SPECIAL
WEATHER STATEMENT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
     LITTLE RIVER

IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
     MCCURTAIN

IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
     RED RIVER...BOWIE...FRANKLIN...MORRIS AND CASS

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     BOXELDER...DALBY SPRINGS...DE KALB...HOOKS...MAUD...NASH...NEW
     BOSTON...REDWATER...SIMMS...TEXARKANA...US 259 AND I 30
     INTERSECTION...WRIGHT PATTMAN LAKE AND WAKE VILLAGE

AT 357 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DE KALB...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
SEEK SHELTER INDOORS...AS FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS
OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3338 9515 3370 9476 3355 9407 3326 9406
      3310 9427 3327 9482 3339 9483 3340 9488
      3340 9500 3339 9504 3340 9509 3339 9512
      3337 9512
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 307DEG 9KT 3346 9465

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Bowie	57 min
Jul 13, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris	55 min
Jul 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion	67 min
Jul 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Upshur	63 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.