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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Shreveport, LA

July 18, 20094 counties in Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2009, 12:21 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 39 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 18, 2009, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2009, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Shelby County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2009-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2431 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2009-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2431 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 17, 4:00 PM CDT, 20 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 4:00 PM CDT, 20 hours 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSabine, San Augustine42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.