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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2010, 9:43 PM CST for Union County, Arkansas. It was in force for 62 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
- Mar 10, 2010, 9:43 PM CST (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2010, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Union County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- 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 Mar 10, 9:39 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 9:39 PM CST, 4 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1102 AM CST WED MAR 10 2010 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-111200- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN- UNION LA-DE SOTO-RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA- NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE- FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG- HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA- SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX- 1102 AM CST WED MAR 10 2010 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL BE MOVING INTO THE PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL HELP TO SPAWN STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON...INTO THE EVENING AND EARLY OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG A DRYLINE WHICH WILL SURGE ITS WAY OUT OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL TEXAS LATER TODAY. THESE STORMS INITIALLY WILL CONTAIN LARGE HAIL ACROSS THE REGION BUT THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THESE STORMS COULD BECOME ROOTED CLOSER TO THE SURFACE AND THUS THERE WOULD BE A POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. THESE STORMS WILL RAPIDLY MOVE EASTWARD THIS EVENING AND SHOULD CLEAR SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION. 13
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Local storm report, Mar 10, 9:16 PM CST, 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion, Upshur | 43 min |
| Mar 10, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Rusk | 55 min |
| Mar 10, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 6:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk | 60 min |
| Mar 10, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion, Panola | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion | 58 min |
| Mar 10, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 53 min |
| Mar 10, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Union | 66 min |
| Mar 10, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Webster | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Webster | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Webster | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 7:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 40 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.