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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 3, 2008Bowie County, Texas; Little River County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2008, 8:09 AM CST for Bowie County, Texas; Little River County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 min. 4 reports 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 3, 2008, 8:09 AM CST (14:09 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2008, 9:15 AM CST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Little River County, AR, Bowie County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:12 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 3, 8:15 AM CST	TORNADO	1 Wnw Hooks, TX	EF1 TORNADO OCCURRED JUST NORTH OF I30 DAMAGING A CAMPER SALES STORE AND DESTROYING SEVERAL CAMPERS. SEVERAL LARGE TREES WERE ALSO SNAPPED OR DAMAGED. DAMAGE ESTIMATES FROM THIS TORNADO ARE APPROXIMATELY HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. THE PATH WAS APPROXIMATELY 75 YA
Mar 3, 8:17 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Hooks, TX	SEVERAL CAMPER TRAILERS OVERTURNED NEAR I-30...POSSIBLE TORNADO
Mar 3, 8:27 AM CST	TORNADO	3 Ssw Ashdown, AR	AN EF0 TORNADO OCCURRED SOUTHWEST OF ASHDOWN ARKANSAS DAMAGING A METAL BUILDING...SOME FARM EQUIPMENT...AND SOME TREES. THE PATH WAS APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE LONG AND 100 YARDS WIDE.
Mar 3, 8:33 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	1 S Ashdown, AR	TREES AND SMALL SHED BLOWN DOWN...POSSIBLE TORNADO

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 3, 6:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -167 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 489 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KSHV 031410
TORSHV
ARC081-TXC037-031515-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0004.080303T1409Z-080303T1515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
809 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WAKE VILLAGE...TEXARKANA...NEW
  BOSTON...
  SOUTHERN LITTLE RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ASHDOWN...

* UNTIL 915 AM CST

* AT 807 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NEW
  BOSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW BOSTON BY 820 AM CST...
  HOOKS BY 835 AM CST...
  OGDEN BY 915 AM CST...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST MONDAY
AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND
NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3379 9403 3333 9405 3327 9442 3328 9443
      3328 9445 3358 9459
TIME...MOT...LOC 1409Z 240DEG 21KT 3340 9445

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 9:36 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	SHV	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more	23 hr
Mar 3, 4:16 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	SHV	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more	12 hr
Mar 3, 4:35 AM CST	Snow Advisory	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 1 more	23 hr
Mar 3, 6:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Smith, Wood	53 min
Mar 3, 7:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Gregg, Rusk, Upshur	60 min
Mar 3, 7:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Smith	56 min
Mar 3, 7:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Morris, Titus	67 min
Mar 3, 7:47 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bowie, Morris, Red River	58 min
Mar 3, 7:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	67 min
Mar 3, 8:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Rusk	38 min
Mar 3, 9:16 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Anderson, Cherokee, Houston	47 hr
Mar 3, 9:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus	45 days
Mar 3, 9:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris	48 days
Mar 3, 10:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Harrison	2 hr
Mar 3, 8:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier	47 min
Mar 3, 8:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller	61 min
Mar 3, 10:22 AM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Columbia	12 days

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2008 Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2008 Every tornado warning in 2008 Tornadoes in 2008

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.