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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 16, 20136 counties in Texas

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2013-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 186 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2013-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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In the hours before

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.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison, Panola40 min
May 16, 2:29 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHarrison, Panola31 min
May 16, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBossier, Caddo, De Soto33 min
May 16, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River48 min
May 16, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVBienville, Natchitoches, Red River22 min
May 16, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNatchitoches, Red River, Winn61 min
May 16, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVNatchitoches, Winn28 min
May 16, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVNatchitoches, Winn46 min
May 16, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVColumbia55 min
May 16, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVUnion64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.