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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 28, 2014Panola County, Rusk County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2014, 2:46 AM CDT for Panola County, Rusk County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2014, 2:46 AM CDT (07:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2014, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX

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 27, 11:08 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 67 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1893 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1351 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

022 
WFUS54 KSHV 280746
TORSHV
TXC365-401-280815-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0008.140428T0746Z-140428T0815Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
246 AM CDT MON APR 28 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CARTHAGE...
  RUSK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 315 AM CDT

* AT 243 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PINEHILL...
  OR 14 MILES EAST OF HENDERSON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  BECKVILLE

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE
STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...
MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE 
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST
OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3235 9447 3235 9438 3233 9435 3236 9421
      3208 9408 3199 9461 3218 9470
TIME...MOT...LOC 0746Z 251DEG 42KT 3212 9454

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Wood	53 min
Apr 27, 7:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Camp, Morris, Titus	27 min
Apr 27, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris, Titus	66 min
Apr 28, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Wood	42 min
Apr 28, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	63 min
Apr 28, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Cass, Marion, Morris, Titus, Upshur	50 min
Apr 28, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	44 min
Apr 28, 2:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk	57 min
Apr 28, 2:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	38 min
Apr 28, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Marion	50 min
Apr 28, 3:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola, Rusk, Shelby	26 min
Apr 28, 3:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	59 min
Apr 28, 3:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Panola, Shelby	46 min
Apr 28, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	48 min
Apr 28, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine	45 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.