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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2014, 12:06 AM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- Apr 4, 2014, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Upshur County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
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 Apr 3, 11:40 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 11:40 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1140 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014 .AVIATION... SVR TSTMS HAVE INCREASED ACROSS NE TX AND SW AR. LINE SEGMENT RACING ACROSS SW AR HAS MOVED EAST OF KTXK TERMINAL...AND WILL HEAD INTO KELD TERMINAL AROUND 0530Z. VERY FREQUENT LTG STRIKES...STG WINDS ABOVE 45 KTS FROM WEST...AND POSSIBLE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. OUTFLOW WINDS AT KTXK WILL DIMINISH AND RETURN TO SOUTH AT AROUND 10 KTS. A TRAILING BAND OF CONVECTION EXTENDING WWD JUST NORTH OF I-20 CORRIDOR WILL SINK SWD INTO KTYR AND KGGG BY 05Z...AND INTO KSHV BY 0530Z. THESE STORMS SLIGHTLY WEAKER...HOWEVER... LTG STRIKES AND WIND GUSTS OVER 30 KTS CAN BE EXPECTED. TSTMS SHOULD AFFECT KLFK AND KMLU TERMINALS LATER TONIGHT. CIGS ACROSS AREA...OUTSIDE OF CONVECTION HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY MVFR. COLD FRONT STILL WELL WEST OF CWA...THUS MVFR TO LOW VFR CIGS STILL EXPECTED BEHIND STORMS. HOWEVER...SKIES BECMG VFR SKC BEHIND COLD FRONT... WITH N-NW WINDS BECMG 10 TO 15 KTS AND GUSTY FOLLOWING FRONTAL PASSAGE. AFTER 05/06Z...UPPER LVL CLOUDS WILL BEGIN TO REPLACE SKC CONDITIONS./VII/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 921 PM CDT THU APR 3 2014/ DISCUSSION... A SLOW START TO CONVECTIVE INITIATION THIS EVENING DUE TO DELAYED EASTWARD PROGRESSION OF DRYLINE. SIGNIFICANT CONVECTIVE COMPLEX CHARACTERIZED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND TORNADIC SIGNATURES BEGINNING TO DRIFT EAST TOWARD RED RIVER AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS. LATEST RAOB FROM KSHV INDICATES A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. PREVIOUS CAP FROM EARLIER TODAY HAS SENSE ERODED. EXPECTING CONVECTION TO INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT...SPREADING EASTWARD ACROSS THE REGION. HENCE...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 56 HAS BEEN ISSUED...WHICH IS AN EXTENSION TO THE PREVIOUS WATCH AND INCORPORATES PORTIONS OF NORTH LOUISIANA AND DEEP EAST TEXAS. WATCH TO REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM. DUE TO THE DELAY IN DRYLINE/COLD FRONT ARRIVAL...ALSO WENT AHEAD AND RAISED OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION AND INCREASED POPS FOR AFTER MIDNIGHT. UPDATES ARE ALREADY OUT. /05/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 63 71 46 67 51 / 70 0 0 20 40 MLU 64 74 46 65 50 / 70 20 0 20 50 DEQ 56 67 38 66 47 / 70 0 0 10 20 TXK 58 68 44 66 49 / 70 0 0 10 30 ELD 63 71 43 66 49 / 70 0 0 10 40 TYR 58 70 46 65 50 / 70 0 0 20 30 GGG 60 70 46 66 50 / 70 0 0 20 30 LFK 64 72 48 67 54 / 50 10 10 30 40 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 11:17 AM CDT, 12 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1117 AM CDT THU APR 3 2014 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-041200- 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- 1117 AM CDT THU APR 3 2014 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 CONTINUE DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND EAST CENTRAL TEXAS...NEAR AND AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE AND IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS. AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL BE IN PLACE...WITH THESE STORMS EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND EXTREME EASTERN TEXAS. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE AS THEY MOVE INTO THESE AREAS...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS. AS THESE STORMS DEVELOP INTO ONE OR MORE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES THIS EVENING...A PREDOMINANTLY DAMAGING WIND THREAT WILL MATERIALIZE OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA AS THESE STORMS ACCELERATE EAST ACROSS THE AREA. ISOLATED TORNADOES AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGER STORMS...WITH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT DIMINISHING FROM WEST TO EAST LATE TONIGHT AS THE STORMS EXIT THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO MUCH OF THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...AS SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE RETURNS NORTH AHEAD OF ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM THAT WILL CROSS THE ROCKIES INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH THESE SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISHING FROM WEST TO EAST SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 13
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Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 3, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Red River, Titus | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Upshur and 1 more | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River, Titus | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Morris, Smith, Upshur, Wood | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 66 min |
| Apr 4, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine, San Augustine | 67 min |
| Apr 4, 4:10 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Red River and 1 more | 53 min |
| Apr 4, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Winn | 64 min |
| Apr 4, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Sabine, Winn | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 4:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SHV | Ouachita | 66 min |
| Apr 4, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Winn | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 5:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Winn | 112 min |
| Apr 4, 5:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada, Union | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Union | 55 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.