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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 436
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 23, 2014, 6:29 PM CDT for 13 parishes in Louisiana; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2014, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 28 counties
Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Houston County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, LaSalle | 38 min |
| Jul 23, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne, Union | 48 min |
| Jul 23, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk and 4 more | 54 min |
| Jul 23, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 39 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Union, Webster | 84 min |
| Jul 23, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 6 more | 89 min |
| Jul 23, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Delta, Fannin and 15 more | 5 hr |
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.