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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Shreveport, LA

August 6, 2012Claiborne Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2012, 3:06 PM CDT for Claiborne Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 54 min. 2 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: Aug 6, 2012, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2012, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Claiborne Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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
Aug 6, 3:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 S Homer, LA	A LARGE TREE LIMB WAS BLOWN INTO A PASSING VEHICLE TRAVELING HIGHWAY 9...SHATTERING THE WINDSHIELD. THE MOTORIST WAS NOT INJURED.
Aug 6, 3:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 Se Shongaloo, LA	TREES DOWN NEAR SHONGALOO

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 2 storm reports to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 24 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 nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

126 
WUUS54 KSHV 062006
SVRSHV
LAC027-119-062100-
/O.NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0249.120806T2006Z-120806T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
306 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLAIBORNE PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HOMER...
  CENTRAL WEBSTER PARISH IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 305 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HAYNESVILLE...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOMER...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  EVERGREEN...HOLLY SPRINGS...SPRING LAKE...LISBON AND LAKE
  CLAIRBORNE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING 
IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS 
ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR 
THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 3280 9285 3258 9316 3258 9317 3285 9337
      3301 9318
TIME...MOT...LOC 2005Z 316DEG 13KT 3287 9323

$$

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1 follow-up statement

107 
WWUS54 KSHV 062048
SVSSHV

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
348 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

LAC027-119-062100-
/O.CON.KSHV.SV.W.0249.000000T0000Z-120806T2100Z/
CLAIBORNE LA-WEBSTER LA-
348 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT
FOR WEBSTER AND CLAIBORNE PARISHES...

AT 348 PM CDT...USING DOPPLER RADAR...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR HOLLY SPRINGS...OR 8 MILES EAST OF MINDEN...MOVING SOUTH 
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED PARISHES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3258 9316 3259 9318 3272 9327 3280 9309
      3272 9297
TIME...MOT...LOC 2048Z 328DEG 18KT 3263 9313

$$

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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 Aug 6, 2:27 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 2:27 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
227 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

.DISCUSSION...
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE REGION
IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER-LEVEL WEAKNESS DIGGING SOUTH FROM
ARKANSAS. CONVECTION FORECAST TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF
THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. LOW TEMPERATURES TONIGHT TO
FALL INTO THE MID TO UPPER 70S WITH LIGHT WINDS AREAWIDE.

WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE REGION TO SHIFT SOUTH
OVERNIGHT...DIMINISHING RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE INTERSTATE 30
CORRIDOR FOR TUESDAY. CLOUD COVER AND INSTABILITY EXPECTED TO KEEP
AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES ON TUESDAY AT OR BELOW 100 DEGREES
WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA.

PATTERN EXPECTED TO SHIFT ON FRIDAY AS CANADIAN SURFACE HIGH
PRESSURE DIVES SOUTH BEHIND A ROBUST COLD FRONT. COULD SEE SOME
CONVECTION ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. FOR THIS
PACKAGE...HINTED AT A COOLING TREND BUT REMAINED WARMER THAN THE
GFS WHICH IS ADVERTISING HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 90S THROUGH THE
WEEKEND. OTHERWISE...COULD SEE LOWS TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO
UPPER 60S WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES PREVAILING LATE IN THE PERIOD.
/05/

&&

.AVIATION...
VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE TAF PERIOD.
WIDELY SCT CONVECTION CONTINUES ACROSS PORTIONS OF E TX/NW LA/SCNTRL
AR...WITH THIS CONVECTION POSSIBLY AFFECTING THE SHV/LFK/ELD/MLU
TERMINALS THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. AMENDMENTS MAY BE
NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON FOR THESE TERMINALS BASED ON RADAR
TRENDS...WITH CONVECTION IN CNTRL AR EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SE INTO
SCNTRL AR/POSSIBLY NE LA AFTER 21Z. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF MVFR CIGS/REDUCED VSBYS AND WIND GUSTS IN
EXCESS OF 40KTS...BEFORE DIMINISHING THIS EVENING. AM EXPECTING
ELEVATED CONVECTIVE DEBRIS TO LINGER ACROSS AT LEAST THE SRN HALF OF
THE AREA OVERNIGHT WHILE GRADUALLY THINNING. OTHERWISE...ANOTHER VFR
CU FIELD SHOULD REDEVELOP BY MIDDAY TUESDAY...WITH ISOLATED
CONVECTION POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON. VRB WINDS UP TO 6KTS THIS
AFTERNOON...WILL BECOME LT/VRB AFTER 00Z. /15/

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV  77  97  77  98  76 /  30  30  10  20  30
MLU  76  98  75  98  73 /  30  30  10  20  20
DEQ  72  97  75  97  74 /  20  20  10  20  30
TXK  76  97  75  97  75 /  20  20  10  20  30
ELD  73  98  73  96  74 /  30  20  10  20  30
TYR  78  99  77  98  74 /  30  20  10  20  30
GGG  77  98  76  98  74 /  30  20  10  20  30
LFK  76  98  74  97  74 /  30  30  20  20  30

&&

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

05/15

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 11:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1145 AM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-
TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-071645-
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-
1145 AM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

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...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE
ENTIRE REGION AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE GREATEST
COVERAGE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW DAMAGING WIND GUSTS
CANNOT BE RULED OUT WITH ANY STRONG STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE WORK WEEK AS A SERIES OF WEAK UPPER
DISTURBANCES INTERACT WITH A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO
OPERATORS...AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR
TONIGHT.

05

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 6, 9:11 AM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
911 AM CDT MON AUG 06 2012

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

0500 PM     TSTM WND DMG     DE QUEEN                34.04N 94.34W
08/05/2012                   SEVIER             AR   BROADCAST MEDIA

            LARGE TREE DOWN BLOCKING GILSON AVE. STREET WAS CLOSED.

&&

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 9:18 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
918 AM CDT MON AUG 06 2012

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

0500 PM     TSTM WND DMG     DE QUEEN                34.04N 94.34W
08/05/2012                   SEVIER             AR   EMERGENCY MNGR

            LARGE TREE DOWN BLOCKING GILSON AVE. STREET WAS CLOSED.
            SEVERAL OTHER TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.

&&

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 9:26 AM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
926 AM CDT MON AUG 06 2012

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

0610 PM     TSTM WND DMG     ASHDOWN                 33.67N 94.13W
08/05/2012                   LITTLE RIVER       AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN COUNTY WIDE.

&&

RWILLIS

Local storm report, Aug 6, 12:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1252 PM CDT MON AUG 06 2012

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

0620 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PATMOS                  33.51N 93.57W
08/05/2012                   HEMPSTEAD          AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            A LARGE OAK TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN.

&&

RWILLIS

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
205 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

LAZ001-061945-
CADDO-
205 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
PARISH...

IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...
     CADDO...

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
     GREENWOOD...

AT 205 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GREENWOOD...OR 10 MILES WEST OF
SHREVEPORT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WINDS 40 TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:56 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
256 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

LAZ003-004-062045-
CLAIBORNE-WEBSTER-
256 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
PARISHES...

IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...
     CLAIBORNE AND WEBSTER...

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
     COTTON VALLEY...HAYNESVILLE...HOMER AND SHONGALOO...

AT 256 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SHONGALOO...OR 13 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGHILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. SHOULD THIS STORM
INTENSIFY...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE NEEDED.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	61 min
Aug 5, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine	60 min
Aug 5, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caddo	56 min
Aug 5, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Caddo, De Soto, Jackson, Natchitoches, Red River and 2 more	60 min
Aug 6, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Webster	55 min
Aug 6, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln	38 min
Aug 6, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	52 min
Aug 6, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita, Union	39 min
Aug 6, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita	43 min
Aug 6, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita, Union	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2012 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012

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.