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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 294, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2009, 10:51 AM CDT for Caldwell Parish, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 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 6, 2009, 10:51 AM CDT (15:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2009, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Caldwell Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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 6, 10:50 AM CDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 10:50 AM CDT, 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1050 AM CDT THU AUG 6 2009 .DISCUSSION... KSHV RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PROPAGATING SWWD INTO CENTRAL AND NRN LA...AROUND THE ERN PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE. WITH CAPE VALUES NEAR 3000 J/KG...ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. MODELS INDICATE THE RIDGE CONTINUING ITS BUILD TO THE E TODAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THIS COUPLED WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING WILL LIKELY END ANY REMAINING CONVECTION. FOR NOW...IT APPEARS THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE ON THEIR SWWD TRACK. THUS WILL RAISE POPS AND LOWER MAX TEMPS OVER CENTRAL AND NRN LA FOR THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO WILL TWEAK SKY GRIDS A BIT. OTHERWISE...WILL LEAVE THE CURRENT FORECAST AS IS. /12/ && .AVIATION... LOW CLOUDS AND FOG THIS MORNING TRYING TO HANG ON ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND INTO ADJACENT SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. STARTING TO SO SOME IMPROVEMENT SO WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE THE FOG AND LOWER CEILINGS WITH AMENDMENTS UNTIL THE NEW TAF ISSUANCE TIME. BY 06/18Z EXPECT THE MAJORITY OF THE FOG AND IFR TO BE GONE. HOWEVER WILL KEEP THE MVFR OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA IN WAKE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE DELTA REGION THIS MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA ALONG AND NEAR A MONROE/KMLU TO NATCHITOCHES/KIER LINE THROUGH THE LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON. WILL CARRY A MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS/OR CB IN THE TERMINAL FORECAST FOR KMLU. MAY ALSO HAVE TO MENTION FOR KLFK TOO WITH DISTURBANCE ROUNDING THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF THE UPPER RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD BE THE DOMINANT CATEGORY THROUGH THE DAY ACROSS MOST OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. UPPER RIDGE AXIS MIGRATES EASTWARD TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY WITH VFR CONDITIONS PREVAILING FOR MOST TERMINAL SITES...BUT MAY CARRY SOME MORNING FOG/BR AROUND 07/10Z TO 07/13Z FOR KELD...KMLU...KTXK. /06/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 95 75 97 74 96 / 20 10 0 0 10 MLU 95 71 97 72 96 / 40 10 0 0 10 DEQ 95 72 96 73 96 / 20 10 0 0 10 TXK 95 73 96 75 96 / 20 10 0 0 10 ELD 94 70 96 72 96 / 20 0 0 0 10 TYR 97 75 97 76 96 / 20 10 0 0 10 GGG 96 74 97 73 97 / 20 10 10 0 10 LFK 97 74 97 73 97 / 20 20 10 0 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 12/06
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 4:52 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 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 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola, Shelby | 60 min |
| Aug 6, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Rusk | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 11:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 58 min |
| Aug 6, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Winn | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Winn | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Winn | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Red River, Webster | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.