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Lake Wind Advisory 39, NWS Shreveport, LA

October 18, 201121 counties in Texas; 17 parishes in Louisiana; 9 counties in Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this lake wind advisory at Oct 18, 2011, 9:41 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas; 17 parishes in Louisiana; 9 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Oct 19, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 18, 2011, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 19, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 19, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
All 47 counties

Columbia County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 16 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2011-10-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2011-10-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -94 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Oct 18, 9:33 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 9:33 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 18, 11:50 AM CDT, 9 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1150 AM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011

LAZ010-011-017>022-TXZ149>153-165>167-191700-
DE SOTO-RED RIVER-SABINE LA-NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-
LA SALLE-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA-
SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX-
1150 AM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE
TODAY...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 25 EXPECTED. WIND GUSTS WILL
LIKELY APPROACH 35 MPH AT TIMES TODAY AS WELL. NORTHWEST WINDS
WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-012>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-
108>112-124>126-136>138-191700-
SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE-
COLUMBIA-UNION AR-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN-
UNION LA-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-MCCURTAIN-RED RIVER-BOWIE-
FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG-
HARRISON-
1150 AM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE
TODAY...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 25 EXPECTED. WIND GUSTS WILL
LIKELY APPROACH 35 MPH AT TIMES TODAY AS WELL. NORTHWEST WINDS
WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
AFTER ANOTHER BREEZY DAY ON WEDNESDAY...WINDS WILL DIMINISH QUICKLY
WEDNESDAY EVENING...ALLOWING OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES TO PLUMMET
TO NEAR THE FREEZING MARK ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN AND
SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. ELSEWHERE...PATCHY FROST WILL BE POSSIBLE
ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA LATE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THE PREDAWN HOURS THURSDAY MORNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 19, 4:01 AM CDTFreeze WarningSHVHoward, Little River, Sevier29 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Texas, 2011Lake Wind Advisories in Louisiana, 2011Lake Wind Advisories in Arkansas, 2011Every lake wind advisory in 2011

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.