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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 25, 2011Angelina County, Cherokee County, Nacogdoches County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2011, 9:25 PM CDT for Angelina County, Cherokee County, Nacogdoches County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 4 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 25, 2011, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2011, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Angelina County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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 25, 9:37 PM CDT	TORNADO	Wells, TX	AN EF1 TORNADO WITH A 10 MILE PATH LENGTH BEGAN IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER OF CHEROKEE COUNTY WHERE IT CAUSED ROOF DAMAGE TO A HOME ALONG CR 2829. THE STORM CONTINUED INTO ANGELINA COUNTY WHERE IT SNAPPED AND UPROOTED SEVERAL TREES ALONG FM 1819 AND CR 13
Apr 25, 9:40 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 Ssw Wells, TX	TORNADO ON THE GROUND NORTH OF HWY 103 AND 7.
Apr 25, 9:58 PM CDT	TORNADO	Wells, TX	SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF WELLS.
Apr 25, 10:13 PM CDT	TORNADO	Lufkin, TX	AN EF0 TORNADO WITH A PATH LENGTH OF 1 MILE TOUCHED DOWN ALONG RICHARDSON ROAD NORTHWEST OF LUFKIN. MINOR ROOF DAMAGE OCCURRED TO A MOBILE HOME AT ROYCE OLIVER ROAD AND RICHARDSON ROAD. ANOTHER HOME SUFFERED MINOR ROOF DAMAGE AT THE FM 706/HWY 69 INTERSECTION.

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

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 25, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 782 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 553 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 15.0

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The text

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

576 
WFUS54 KSHV 260225
TORSHV
TXC005-073-347-260315-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0032.110426T0225Z-110426T0315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
925 PM CDT MON APR 25 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN ANGELINA COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LUFKIN...
  CENTRAL NACOGDOCHES COUNTY IN EASTERN TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NACOGDOCHES...
  SOUTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 923 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FOREST...OR 22 MILES NORTHEAST OF CROCKETT...MOVING
  EAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WELLS...POLLOK AND HUDSON...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE
STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...
MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

&&

LAT...LON 3130 9490 3133 9491 3133 9494 3135 9496
      3139 9497 3143 9500 3144 9504 3148 9511
      3153 9511 3166 9461 3126 9464
TIME...MOT...LOC 0226Z 268DEG 45KT 3145 9506

$$

ELEVEN

1 follow-up statement

634 
WWUS54 KSHV 260246
SVSSHV

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
946 PM CDT MON APR 25 2011

TXC005-073-347-260315-
/O.CON.KSHV.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-110426T0315Z/
CHEROKEE TX-NACOGDOCHES TX-ANGELINA TX-
946 PM CDT MON APR 25 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR
ANGELINA...NACOGDOCHES AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES...

AT 943 PM CDT...USING DOPPLER RADAR...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED NEAR WELLS...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUFKIN...MOVING EAST AT
50 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
POLLOK...CENTRAL...CLAWSON...HUDSON...REDLAND...HOMER AND NACOGDOCHES

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE
STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...
MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

&&

LAT...LON 3130 9490 3133 9491 3133 9494 3135 9496
      3139 9497 3143 9500 3144 9504 3148 9511
      3153 9511 3166 9461 3126 9464
TIME...MOT...LOC 0246Z 268DEG 45KT 3144 9495

$$

ELEVEN

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, 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, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.