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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 435, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2008, 8:51 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 24 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 3, 2008, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2008, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Upshur County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3046 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 3, 6:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 6:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 12:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 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>167-041100- 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 SUN AUG 3 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 TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB TO 102 TO 108 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITIES...THESE TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO 109 DEGREES. THIS WILL RESULT IN STRESS TO ANYONE INVOLVED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES...AND THOSE CONFINED INDOORS WITHOUT FANS OR AIR CONDITIONERS. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE... MAINLY EAST OF A LUFKIN...TEXAS TO TEXARKANA...ARKANSAS LINE. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY AND TUESDAY...WITH TRIPLE DIGIT AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES MOST PLACES ONCE AGAIN. AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO 109 DEGREES CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER...HAM RADIO OPERATOR...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. 44
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 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 3, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Rusk, Smith | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion, Rusk | 63 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.