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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2013, 6:52 PM CDT for Harrison County, Panola County, Texas; Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 53 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
- Jul 11, 2013, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2013, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Caddo Parish, LA, Harrison County, TX, Panola County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 1937 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 Jul 11, 3:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 3:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 335 PM CDT THU JUL 11 2013 .DISCUSSION... MID AFTN TSTMS BEGIN RAPIDLY DEVELOPING...LACKING ANY REAL PATTERN AT LEAST WITH RESPECT TO WEAK BACKDOR COLD FRONT OVER CENTRAL AR...OR TO INITIAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WHICH SPARKED MUCH WEAKER CONVECTION ACROSS MAINLY NORTHERN LA THIS MORNING. THE MORE INTENSE STORMS THAT DEVELOPED NE TX AND SE OK...WERE IN MID TO UPPER 90 DEGREE TEMPS...AND A FEW MARGINALLY SVR WIND REPORTS AND ONE HAIL REPORT HAVE OCCURRED. WITH ISOLD STORMS DEVELOPING WELL NORTH NEAR I-40...INDICATING STG COOLING IN NW FLOW ALOFT. THUS...WILL KEEP CHANCE CATEGORY TSTMS ALL EVENING...INCLUDING STG WIND GUSTS. DRIER AIR IN PLACE FOR WEEKEND...THEN WILL ADD POPS EARLY NEXT WEEK FOR RETROGRADING PATTERN AS DEEP E-SE FLOW BRINGING UPPER LOWS ACROSS REGION./VII/ && OUTSIDE OF THE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...THE FOUR STATE REGION WILL HAVE VFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES THROUGH MOST OF THE TERMINAL FORECAST PERIOD. CEILING AND VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS IN AND NEAR THE STORMS WILL BE A MIX OF MVFR AND BRIEFLY IFR CONDITIONS. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM ONGOING STORMS MAY CARRY ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION INTO THE EVENING BEFORE TAPERING OFF. HOWEVER FOR SOME OF THE SITES NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 AND ALONG INTERSTATE 30 THERE LOOKS TO BE A PERIOD OF MVFR CEILINGS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT THAT WILL EXTEND FROM JUST NORTH OF KESF TO NEAR KSHV AND INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS NEAR KOSA. THE MVFR CEILINGS AROUND 15 HND FEET POSSIBLE BETWEEN 12/09 UTC TO 12/14 UTC AFFECTING KMLU...KSHV...KELD...AND KTXK. THERE MAY ALSO BE A FEW SHOWERS AROUND NEAR THE 12/10 UTC TO 12/14 UTC TIME FRAME AS WELL AND MAY CARRY VCSH IN TERMINALS. SURFACE WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE OR LIGHT SOUTHWEST AWAY FROM EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...WITH AN EAST TO NORTHEAST IN WAKE OF THE SOUTHWEST MOVING COLD FRONT LATE TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY. /06/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 75 96 71 94 70 / 20 10 10 10 10 MLU 73 94 68 93 69 / 20 10 10 10 10 DEQ 73 95 65 93 67 / 10 10 10 10 10 TXK 74 94 68 93 68 / 10 10 10 10 10 ELD 72 94 65 93 66 / 10 10 10 10 10 TYR 75 98 72 97 71 / 20 20 10 10 10 GGG 76 100 71 95 70 / 20 20 10 10 10 LFK 74 98 72 97 70 / 20 20 20 10 10 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 11:48 AM CDT, 7 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1148 AM CDT THU JUL 11 2013 LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167- 121700- CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN-UNION LA-DE SOTO- RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE LA-NATCHITOCHES-WINN- GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG-HARRISON- CHEROKEE-RUSK-PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE- SABINE TX- 1148 AM CDT THU JUL 11 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA. ALTHOUGH NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED....THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY...MAINLY ACROSS DEEP EAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...AS THE COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVES SOUTH OF THE AREA. AFTER A BREAK ON SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHEAST. HOWEVER...NO ORGANIZED HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-121700- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-MCCURTAIN-RED RIVER-BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP- MORRIS-CASS- 1148 AM CDT THU JUL 11 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... AFTER A BREAK FROM RAIN CHANCES ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE LATE SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHEAST. HOWEVER...NO ORGANIZED HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED FOR THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. VII
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Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith | 55 min |
| Jul 11, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River | 49 min |
| Jul 11, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion | 41 min |
| Jul 11, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Ouachita | 37 min |
| Jul 11, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2013Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.