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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2013, 11:37 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2013, 11:37 AM CDT (16:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2013, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Camp County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Morris County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 May 16, 11:21 AM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 11:21 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1121 AM CDT THU MAY 16 2013 .DISCUSSION... UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO SHIFT ALMOST DUE EAST ACROSS ERN OK INTO WRN AR AS CONVECTION REMAINS ONGOING ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY LATE THIS MORNING. SLIGHT RISK AREA HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR AREAS NORTH OF I-20 THIS AFTERNOON AS UPPER LOW WRAPS AROUND ALONG THE I-30 CORRIDOR. INSTABILITY WILL BE CRUCIAL TO SEEING ANY SEVERE DEVELOPMENT AS MORNING SHWRS MAY HELP TO QUELL...OR AT LEAST DELAY INCREASING INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON. MOST UNSTABLE CONDITIONS REMAIN ACROSS PARTS OF CNTRL AND ERN TX WHERE SKIES HAVE BEGUN TO CLEAR DUE TO DRY SLOTTING FROM THE SW. WENT AHEAD AND INCLUDED SEVERE WORDING IN THE AREAS UNDER SLIGHT RISK AND ALSO BEEFED UP POPS ACROSS THESE SAME AREAS AS WELL AS ALONG THE I-20 CORRIDOR. OTHER EDITS WERE MADE TO SKY GRIDS IN ADDITION TO MAX TEMPS AND WINDS. UPDATED PRODUCTS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY. FINALLY...WE WILL BE DOING A MIDDAY SOUNDING AT 19Z TO GET A BETTER HANDLE ON EXPECTED ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES FOR THIS AFTERNOON. && .AVIATION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE FOUR STATER REGION IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN UPPER LEVEL CLOSED LOW AND TRAILING DISTURBANCES REACHING SOUTHEAST FROM ITS CENTER...AND WITH AN INVERTED TROUGH REACHING NORTHEAST INTO EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA FROM A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER WEST TEXAS NEAR THE BIG BEND REGION. A DRY SLOT OVER PARTS OF EAST TEXAS WILL ALLOW FOR PERIOD OF VFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES FOR KLFK...KTYR...AND KGGG THIS AFTERNOON WITH MOSTLY MVFR AND IFR CONDITIONS FOR REMAINING TERMINAL SITES INCLUDING KTXK...KSHV...KMLU...AND KELD. AS THE DRY AIR WRAPS AROUND THE SYSTEM THE TERMINAL SITES WILL TREND TOWARD MVFR AND PERIODS OF VFR INTO THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH AFTERNOON WARMING AND MOISTURE RETURNING IN THE LOWER LEVELS AS HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE EASTERN GULF COAST STATES AND LOW PRESSURE OVER WEST TEXAS PROVIDE AS TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT INTO EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA AND LATER INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTH ARKANSAS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN. FLIGHT CATEGORIES WILL LOWER TO MVFR AND DOWN TO IFR FOR MOST ALL SITES OVERNIGHT BEFORE 17/06 UTC. SURFACE WINDS WILL BE SOUTH 8 TO 15 KNOTS THROUGH 17/00 UTC LOWERING TO 6 TO 11 KNOTS OVERNIGHT AND THROUGH 18/00 UTC. /06/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 81 68 85 71 89 / 40 20 20 20 10 MLU 82 67 84 70 87 / 40 30 30 30 10 DEQ 75 64 82 67 86 / 70 30 30 30 10 TXK 77 67 83 70 87 / 70 30 30 30 10 ELD 78 65 83 68 87 / 60 30 30 30 10 TYR 82 69 86 71 89 / 40 10 10 10 10 GGG 82 68 86 71 89 / 40 20 10 10 10 LFK 86 70 88 72 90 / 30 10 10 10 10 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 19/06
Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 5:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 16, 11:11 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1111 AM CDT THU MAY 16 2013
TXZ096-108>110-161715-
CAMP-FRANKLIN-RED RIVER-TITUS-
1111 AM CDT THU MAY 16 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CDT...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
FRANKLIN...RED RIVER...TITUS AND CAMP...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
CASON...COOKVILLE...HAGANSPORT...LEESBURG...MOUNT PLEASANT...
MOUNT VERNON...NEWSOME...PITTSBURG...PURLEY...SCROGGINS AND
WILKERSON...
AT 1107 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
DETECTING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAGANSPORT...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
ADDITIONALLY...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED AS THIS STORM SLOWLY TRAVELS SOUTHEAST.
20The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 40 min |
| May 16, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 31 min |
| May 16, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto | 33 min |
| May 16, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River | 48 min |
| May 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville, Natchitoches, Red River | 22 min |
| May 16, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Red River, Winn | 61 min |
| May 16, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Winn | 28 min |
| May 16, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Winn | 46 min |
| May 16, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia | 55 min |
| May 16, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 64 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.