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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 26, 2011Cherokee County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2011, 5:29 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2011, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2011, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Cherokee County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 26, 1:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1650 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 7.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

365 
WUUS54 KSHV 262229
SVRSHV
TXC073-262330-
/O.NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0154.110426T2229Z-110426T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
529 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...RUSK...JACKSONVILLE...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF REESE...OR 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF PALESTINE...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MAYDELLE...MORRILL...FOREST...ALTO...MOUNT SELMAN...BULLARD...
  WELLS...MIXON AND PONTA...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED SOME WEAK
ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO
MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

LAT...LON 3214 9546 3214 9499 3182 9499 3166 9495
      3153 9488 3144 9500 3148 9511 3152 9510
      3157 9515 3158 9525 3168 9529 3176 9539
      3184 9544 3193 9543 3199 9545 3205 9542
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 245DEG 40KT 3192 9544

$$

ELEVEN

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 Apr 26, 2:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 2:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
256 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

.DISCUSSION...

PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND MUCH
OF THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH ALL ELEMENTS COMING TOGETHER FOR LARGE
HAIL...TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WINDS. MOST OF THE SEVERE STORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR...
WHICH ALSO HAPPENS TO CORRELATE WELL WITH THE ONGOING FLASH FLOOD
WATCH. CAPE VALUES ACROSS THE CWA IN THE WARM SECTOR ARE ALREADY
OVER 3000 JOULES WITH A LIFTED INDEX NEAR MINUS 10. ALL THAT IS
NEEDED IS A TRIGGER...WHICH SHOULD ARRIVE IN WESTERN AREAS AROUND
00Z. HOWEVER...A BRIEF ROUND OF CONVECTION WILL OCCUR ALONG A WARM
FRONT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AS IT MOVES NORTH OUT OF
THE AREA. BY 06Z...A DRY INTRUSION WILL BEGIN TO ARRIVE FROM THE
SOUTHWEST AND THIS SHOULD PUT AN END TO MOST OF THE CONVECTION BY 12Z.

ON WEDNESDAY...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION...
FOLLOWED BY STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS. DRY AND COOLER WEATHER
EXPECTED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. NEXT SYSTEM DIGS INTO THE SOUTHERN
ROCKIES FRIDAY NIGHT...BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM
TO THE FOUR STATE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND. DRY AND COOLER WEATHER
EXPECTED FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK.

&&

.AVIATION...
MVFR CEILINGS ACROSS THE REGION ARE FORECAST TO IMPROVE AS DIURNAL
MIXING ALLOWS FOR EROSION OF THE CLOUD DECK BY 00Z. INCREASED SOUTH
WINDS 15 TO 20 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS PERSISTING THROUGH 06Z ACROSS
MOST LOCATIONS. AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS FORECAST TO INITIATE
CONVECTION BY 21Z...SOME STORMS CAPABLE OF  PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS...TURBULENCE...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO
DIMINISH AFTER 06Z WEDNESDAY WITH MVFR CEILINGS PERSISTING THROUGH
15Z. OTHERWISE...WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED BY 18Z. /05/

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV  69  79  53  79  53 /  60  30  10   0   0
MLU  70  81  52  75  50 /  60  40  10   0   0
DEQ  56  70  43  76  46 /  80  50  10   0   0
TXK  66  74  49  77  52 /  80  40  10   0   0
ELD  66  75  47  77  48 /  80  50  10   0   0
TYR  65  75  52  78  54 /  60  10  10   0   0
GGG  67  79  51  78  52 /  60  20  10   0   0
LFK  69  82  53  82  51 /  40  10  10   0   0

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING
     ZONES: ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073.

LA...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
     ZONES: LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022.

OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING
     ZONES: OKZ077.

TX...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING
     ZONES: TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167.

     FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING
     ZONES: TXZ096-097-108>112.

&&

14/05

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 12:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1200 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-
108>112-124>126-136>138-149>151-271100-
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-MCCURTAIN-
BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP-MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-
GREGG-HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-
1200 PM CDT TUE APR 26 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...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN THIRD OF NORTHEAST
TEXAS...MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AS WELL AS ALL OF
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS THROUGH 7 AM WEDNESDAY...

THE POTENTIAL EXIST FOR A VIOLENT OUTBREAK OF TORNADOES LATE THIS
AFTERNOON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE
INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHERN
LOUISIANA...INCLUDING SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ALL OF SOUTHERN
ARKANSAS.

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IN COMBINATION WITH A VERY UNSTABLE AND
HIGHLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT WILL LIKELY RESULT IN THE FORMATION OF
SUPERCELLS ACROSS THE REGION WITH A VIOLENT AND POTENTIAL DEADLY
TORNADO OUTBREAK EXPECTED. VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL
ALSO ACCOMPANY THE CONVECTION LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS.

TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS CAN BE
EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EXTREME
NORTHEAST TEXAS TONIGHT...WHICH WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING
CONCERNS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION THIS
WEEKEND WITH THE APPROACH OF ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON...BUT
ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS FOR THIS
SIGNIFICANT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT.

LAZ017>022-TXZ152-153-165>167-271100-
SABINE LA-NATCHITOCHES-WINN-GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-NACOGDOCHES-
SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE-SABINE TX-
1200 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS THE REGION. WITH A VERY
UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT IN PLACE...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE...SOME OF WHICH COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH HAIL AND
DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THIS THREAT WILL INCREASE AS WE
TRANSITION INTO THE EVENING HOURS TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION THIS
WEEKEND WITH THE APPROACH OF ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AS EARLY AS THIS AFTERNOON BUT
ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS FOR THE
POTENTIAL OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 26, 12:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1201 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0240 AM     TORNADO          2 N JENA                31.72N 92.13W
04/26/2011                   LA SALLE           LA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            DAMAGE REPORTS FROM EMERGENCY MANAGER OF TREES AND
            POWERLINES DOWN IN SUMMERVILLE APPEARS TO BE TORNADO
            DAMAGE.

&&

20

Local storm report, Apr 26, 4:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
412 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0349 PM     HAIL             BLUFF CITY              33.72N 93.13W
04/26/2011  E1.75 INCH       NEVADA             AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN BLUFF CITY.

&&

15

Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:13 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
513 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0455 PM     HAIL             9 S JACKSONVILLE        31.83N 95.26W
04/26/2011  M1.75 INCH       CHEROKEE           TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            HAM RADIO REPORTING GOLFBALL HAIL FALLING FOR 10 MINUTES
            SOUTH OF JACKSONVILLE ON FM 2138

&&

04

Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:16 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
516 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0505 PM     HAIL             GALLATIN                31.90N 95.15W
04/26/2011  M1.00 INCH       CHEROKEE           TX   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

04

Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:24 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
524 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0517 PM     HAIL             JACKSONVILLE            31.97N 95.26W
04/26/2011  E0.50 INCH       CHEROKEE           TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            HEAVY RAIN...WINDS ESTIMATED AT 40 MPH IN JACKSONVILLE
            AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL

&&

04

Local storm report, Apr 26, 5:28 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
528 PM CDT TUE APR 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0815 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG HAUGHTON                32.53N 93.51W
04/25/2011                   BOSSIER            LA   PUBLIC

            GRADIENT WINDS GUSTING TO 45-50 MPH DOWNED A LARGE TREE
            WHICH FELL ON A HOME IN THE DOGWOOD SUBDIVISION IN
            HAUGHTON.

&&

15

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bowie	44 min
Apr 25, 7:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 25, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 1 more	60 min
Apr 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Smith	64 min
Apr 25, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion, Morris	39 min
Apr 25, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur	54 min
Apr 25, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion	60 min
Apr 25, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola, Rusk	48 min
Apr 25, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches	50 min
Apr 25, 10:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches	42 min
Apr 25, 10:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches	49 min
Apr 25, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Sabine, San Augustine	45 min
Apr 25, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine	27 min
Apr 26, 4:03 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches and 8 more	27 hr
Apr 26, 9:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus	67 hr
Apr 26, 9:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris	15 days
Apr 26, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Franklin, Morris, Titus	47 hr
Apr 26, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	54 min
Apr 26, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk	58 min
Apr 26, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Smith	40 min
Apr 26, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Rusk	64 min
Apr 26, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Smith, Upshur, Wood	51 min
Apr 26, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk	41 min
Apr 26, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	65 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.