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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2014, 2:32 PM CDT for Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 28 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 14, 2014, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2014, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Caldwell Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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 14, 10:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 2260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 14, 1:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 1:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1116 AM CDT MON APR 14 2014 LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167- 151630- 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- 1116 AM CDT MON APR 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A FEW OF THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...OR POSSIBLY LARGER. HOWEVER...SINCE THESE STORMS ARE DEVELOPING MOSTLY BEHIND THE PASSAGE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT...DAMAGING WINDS ARE ONLY A VERY REMOTE THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING MAY ALSO OCCUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE REGION LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY WITH THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEXT COLD FRONT. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL THREAT...AND LACK OF DAMAGING WIND THREAT...STORM SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-151630- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION AR-MCCURTAIN-RED RIVER-BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP- MORRIS-CASS- 1116 AM CDT MON APR 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...ENDING LATER THIS AFTERNOON. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE REGION LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY WITH THE ARRIVAL OF OUR NEXT COLD FRONT. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...IS NOT EXPECTED FOR THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. VII
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 8:04 PM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | SHV | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Morris, Red River, Titus | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 4:38 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | SHV | Red River | 28 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 11:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Upshur | 55 min |
| Apr 14, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln, Union | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union | 44 min |
| Apr 13, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 59 min |
| Apr 13, 10:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 37 min |
| Apr 13, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Nevada, Sevier | 48 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.