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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2012, 3:53 PM CDT for Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 3, 2012, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Red River County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 3, 4:41 PM CDT | TORNADO | 10 S Clarksville, TX | AN EF0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ALONG CR 4610...WHERE A FEW TREES WERE UPROOTED. THE TORNADO TRAVELED NORTH NORTHEAST JUST EAST OF CR 910...WHERE ADDITIONAL TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED. THIS TORNADO CONTINUED ACROSS CR 4605...SNAPPING LARGE LIMBS OFF OF SEVERA |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 S Bogata, TX | TREES DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY 37 SOUTH...ROTATION WAS NOTED WITH THE STORM BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. |
| Apr 3, 5:00 PM CDT | HAIL 2 | Cuthand, TX | TWO INCH HAIL REPORTED BY EMERGENCY MANAGER. |
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 3, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936
WFUS54 KSHV 032053
TORSHV
TXC387-032200-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0019.120403T2053Z-120403T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
353 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN RED RIVER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CLARKSVILLE...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 353 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BOGATA...OR 9 MILES WEST OF HAGANSPORT...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
DEPORT AND BOGATA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
&&
LAT...LON 3377 9521 3354 9490 3336 9525 3338 9531
3361 9532
TIME...MOT...LOC 2053Z 223DEG 23KT 3339 9537
$$
13The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River, Titus | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Titus | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Morris, Red River, Titus | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Franklin, Red River, Titus | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith, Wood | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River, Titus | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Titus | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Smith, Upshur, Wood | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Smith, Wood | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Morris, Red River, Titus | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur | 51 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.