Alert archive / Arkansas / Winter Storm Warnings in 2008
Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this winter storm warning at Mar 6, 2008, 2:04 PM CST for Red River County, Texas; Howard County, Little River County, Sevier County, Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 6, 2008, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 18 hr. 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 6, 2008, 2:04 PM CST (20:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 6, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
Counties Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Red River County, TX
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 6, 4:11 AM CST, 9 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 4:11 AM CST, 9 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 6, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CST THU MAR 6 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>167-071200- 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 CST THU MAR 6 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 A WINTER STORM WILL BE MOVING SOUTH AND EAST INTO THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATER TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD RAIN WILL QUICKLY CHANGE OVER TO A MIXTURE OF SLEET AND SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN THIRD OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AS WELL AS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS LATER TONIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 7 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE NIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR. HIGHER SNOW AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS OF THE OUACHITAS IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. FURTHER SOUTH TOWARDS THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...RAIN WILL BECOME MIXED WITH SLEET THIS EVENING BEFORE CHANGING OVER TO SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS NEAR THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR OF NORTHEAST TEXAS COULD APPROACH ONE INCH OVERNIGHT. TRAVEL COULD BECOME HAZARDOUS LATE TONIGHT ONCE RAIN BEGINS TO CHANGE OVER TO SLEET AND SNOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE WINTER STORM SYSTEM WILL BE EXITING THE REGION BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON BUT NOT BEFORE IT LEAVES ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AS WELL AS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. TRAVEL WILL LIKELY BE HAZARDOUS DURING THE DAY FRIDAY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE REGION DUE TO THE ANTICIPATED SLEET AND SNOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER...HAM RADIO OPERATOR...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACTIVATION...SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2:04 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | SHV | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 9 more | 31 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Arkansas, 2008Winter Storm Warnings in Texas, 2008Every winter storm warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.