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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 20, 2011Howard County, Sevier County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2011, 8:56 PM CDT for Howard County, Sevier County, Arkansas. It was in force for 64 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 2011, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2011, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Howard County, AR, Sevier County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 20, 9:50 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	De Queen, AR	SEVERAL TREES DOWN AT FARM TO MARKET AND HWY 329.
Apr 20, 9:50 PM CDT	HAIL 0.25	De Queen, AR	DIME SIZE AT SHERIFF OFFICE
Apr 20, 10:03 PM CDT	HAIL 0.25	Nashville, AR

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 54 minutes after it went out.

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 20, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1739 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

003 
WUUS54 KSHV 210156
SVRSHV
ARC061-133-210300-
/O.NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0095.110421T0156Z-110421T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
856 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...UMPIRE...NASHVILLE...DIERKS...
  NORTHERN SEVIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DE QUEEN...

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 856 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DE QUEEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  GILLHAM...LOCKESBURG...CENTER POINT AND CORINTH...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE 
IMMEDIATELY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND 
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY 
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3432 9392 3419 9391 3418 9380 3406 9380
      3401 9382 3390 9382 3399 9446 3417 9446
      3421 9430 3420 9425 3426 9424
TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 267DEG 29KT 3408 9435

$$

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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 Apr 20, 3:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 3:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
347 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

.DISCUSSION...
COLD FRONT NOW LOCATED FROM GILMER TX...TO JEFFERSON TX...TO JUST
S OF THE AR/LA STATE LINE. WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCE HAS INITIATED
ELEVATED CONVECTION ACROSS AREAS N OF THE FRONT...WHERE ELEVATED
INSTABILITY AND AMPLE LAPSE RATES LINGER. SOME OF THE STORMS HAVE
STRENGTHENED TO SEVERE LIMITS...PROMPTING THE ISSUANCE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH 170. CONVECTION IS FCST TO EVENTUALLY FIRE
FURTHER S ALONG THE FRONT...AS DAYTIME HEATING HELPS TO OVERCOME
CIN. CONVECTIVE INTENSITY SHOULD DECREASE WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING
THIS EVENING. THE FRONT WILL BEGIN TO LIFT N BY TONIGHT AS A SFC
LOW DEVELOPS IN THE LEE OF THE ROCKIES.

CONVECTION WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE...MAINLY ACROSS THE NRN
SECTIONS...AND FINALLY LIFT N OF OUR REGION BY LATE THU NIGHT...AS
THE SFC LOW MOVES OUT INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. A WEAK SHORT WAVE
IS FCST TO EJECT ON FRI...TRAILING A NEW FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL
OK...AND N CENTRAL TX. THIS FRONT WILL STALL...AS A SERIES OF SFC
LOWS DEVELOP OVER W TX. SCHC/CHC POPS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE NWRN
SECTIONS THROUGH MOST OF THE REMAINDER OF THE PD ACCORDINGLY.

THE FRONT WILL LIKELY REMAIN IN PLACE UNTIL TUE...WHEN A VIGOROUS
UPPER TROF IS FCST TO MOVE OUT ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S. THIS SYSTEM
WARRANTS WATCHING AS IT COULD BE OUR NEXT CHANCE AT SUBSTANTIAL
RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLY EVEN SEVERE WEATHER.

WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE ON TEMPS FOR MOST OF THE FCST. ONCE THE FRONT
MOVES N OF THE REGION FRI...NO COOL OFF IS IN SIGHT UNTIL TUE/WED
NEXT WEEK. /12/

&&

.AVIATION...
THE WEAK COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO DRIFT SLOWLY S INTO E TX/N LA THIS
AFTERNOON...AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO DO SO THROUGH EARLY
EVENING...BEFORE STALLING OUT NEAR THE I-20 CORRIDOR OF E TX/N LA.
SCT CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED N OF THIS BNDRY ACROSS SE OK/SW
AR...AND THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON/EARLY
EVENING...AND POSSIBLY FARTHER S IN THE MORE UNSTABLE AIR MASS JUST
S OF THE FRONT. IFR/LOW MVFR CIGS PERSIST N OF THE FRONT...WITH VFR
CIGS S OF THE BNDRY...AND THIS WILL REMAIN THE CASE THROUGH MUCH OF
THE AFTERNOON/EVENING AS THE FRONT STALLS. THE CONVECTION MAY AFFECT
THE TXK/ELD TERMINALS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...AS WELL AS POSSIBLY
THE SHV/MLU TERMINALS BY LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING SHOULD
CONVECTION FIRE ALONG THE FRONT ITSELF. MOST OF THE CONVECTION
SHOULD DIMINISH BY MID-EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING...WITH LOW
MVFR/IFR CIGS DEVELOPING/SPREADING N ACROSS DEEP E TX/NCNTRL LA
AROUND/AFTER 06Z. OVERRUNNING CONDITIONS N OF THE FRONT WILL RESULT
IN IFR CIGS SPREADING EVEN N OF THE FRONT BETWEEN 09-12Z...AND WILL
BE SLOW TO LIFT THROUGH AT LEAST LATE MORNING BEFORE THEY BEGIN TI
LIFT FROM S TO N AS THE FRONT BEGINS TO LIFT N. ISOLATED TSRA WILL
BE POSSIBLE ALONG/N OF THE FRONT MAINLY ACROSS SE OK/SW AR THROUGH
THE PERIOD...DIMINISHING LATE IN THE DAY AS THE FRONT LIFTS N OF THE
REGION. S WINDS 6-12KTS S OF THE FRONT...WILL BECOME ENE 5-10KTS
BEHIND THE FROPA MAINLY ALONG/N OF I-20. /15/

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV  66  87  69  89  69 /  40  20  10  10  10
MLU  66  90  67  90  68 /  40  20  10  10  10
DEQ  56  76  64  83  67 /  50  30  20  20  20
TXK  58  80  66  85  67 /  40  20  10  10  10
ELD  60  81  66  85  67 /  40  20  10  10  10
TYR  65  88  70  90  70 /  40  20  10  10  10
GGG  66  88  69  89  69 /  40  20  10  10  10
LFK  70  90  71  90  71 /  40  10  10  10  10

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 20, 3:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
345 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-
TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-211200-
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-
345 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON...PROVIDING
A FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. ANY STORMS THAT
DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT
ASSOCIATED WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY BE LARGE
HAIL...BUT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CANNOT
BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...

THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY...AS THE
FRONT LIFTS BACK NORTH AND OUT OF THE FOUR STATE REGION. THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE AGAIN TUESDAY...AS A STRONG STORM SYSTEM
APPROACHES THE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 20, 5:56 PM CDT, 3 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
556 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

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

0540 PM     HAIL             HOCHATOWN               34.20N 94.67W
04/20/2011  E1.00 INCH       MCCURTAIN          OK   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL FROM THE 2ND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
            THAT TRACKED ACROSS BEAVERS BEND STATE PARK NEAR BROKEN
            BOW LAKE.

&&

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Local storm report, Apr 20, 6:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
641 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

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

0625 PM     HAIL             2 S DIERKS              34.09N 94.02W
04/20/2011  E1.00 INCH       HOWARD             AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

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Local storm report, Apr 20, 7:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
743 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

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

0645 PM     HAIL             GILLHAM                 34.17N 94.31W
04/20/2011  E1.00 INCH       SEVIER             AR   PUBLIC

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL IN GILLHAM.

&&

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Local storm report, Apr 20, 7:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
750 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

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

0730 PM     HAIL             2 W IDABEL              33.90N 94.85W
04/19/2011  E1.00 INCH       MCCURTAIN          OK   NEWSPAPER

&&

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Special weather statement, Apr 20, 8:05 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
805 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

ARZ051-060-210145-
HEMPSTEAD-HOWARD-
805 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...
     HEMPSTEAD AND HOWARD...

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
     BLEVINS...MINERAL SPRINGS...NASHVILLE AND TOLLETTE...

AT 803 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NASHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. SHOULD THIS
STORM INTENSIFY...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE NEEDED.

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Local storm report, Apr 20, 8:36 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
836 PM CDT WED APR 20 2011

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

0707 PM     TSTM WND DMG     6 NNW NASHVILLE         34.02N 93.89W
04/20/2011                   HOWARD             AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE DOWN NORTH OF HWY 26 AND 369 JUNCTION, 4 MILES EAST
            OF CENTERPOINT. POWER OUT IN CENTERPOINT AND DIERKS DUE
            TO WIND DAMAGE TO POWER LINES.

&&

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	57 min
Apr 20, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Nevada	60 min
Apr 20, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Sevier	40 min
Apr 21, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	66 min
Apr 21, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	61 min
Apr 21, 3:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Nevada, Sevier	4 hr
Apr 21, 7:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Nevada and 1 more	4 hr
Apr 21, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Union	55 min
Apr 21, 8:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette	31 min
Apr 21, 8:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River, Sevier	55 min
Apr 21, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	31 min
Apr 21, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard	34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.