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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 19, 2015Grant Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Winn Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2015, 7:16 PM CDT for Grant Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Winn Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2015, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2015, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Grant Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 19, 7:19 PM CDT	HAIL 1	7 S Provencal, LA	QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC IN THE BELLWOOD COMMUNITY.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 3 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 19, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 19, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 1179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 8.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

422 
WUUS54 KSHV 200016
SVRSHV
LAC043-069-127-200045-
/O.NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0065.150420T0016Z-150420T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
716 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN WINN PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
  WESTERN GRANT PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
  SOUTHEASTERN NATCHITOCHES PARISH IN NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 716 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF
  KURTHWOOD...OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF NATCHITOCHES...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHWESTERN WINN...WESTERN GRANT AND SOUTHEASTERN NATCHITOCHES
  PARISHES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...BERMUDA...GORUM...
  KISATCHIE...BELLWOOD...CLOUTIERVILLE...FLORA...MELROSE AND NATCHEZ.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN
LOUISIANA.

LAT...LON 3140 9322 3158 9323 3171 9297 3156 9287
      3139 9292
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 268DEG 31KT 3152 9319 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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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 19, 6:26 PM CDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 6:26 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
626 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

.UPDATE...
UPDATED TO INCLUDE OUR EASTERN ZONES IN TOR #83 VALID UNTIL 1 AM
CDT. ALSO ADDED MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SVR #81 VALID UNTIL 8 PM CDT.

DISCRETE SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND
AHEAD OF A PREFRONTAL TROUGH WHICH HAS PUSHED ITS WAY INTO SW
AR/NW LA AND E TX. FRONT IS QUICKLY CATCHING UP TO THE PREFRONTAL
TROUGH FROM THE WEST. LOW LEVEL SHEAR IS INCREASING ACROSS NORTH
CENTRAL LA...THUS THE REASONING FOR UPGRADING THE SVR WATCH
TO A TOR WATCH.

WILL LIKELY BEGIN CLEARING COUNTIES OUT OF SVR #81 A LITTLE LATER
THIS EVENING.

NO OTHER CHANGES WITH THIS UPDATE.

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&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 413 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015/

DISCUSSION...
A LARGE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE THAT HAD OPENED INTO A
WAVE FROM PREVIOUSLY CLOSED LOW...WAS MOVING OUT ACROSS THE PLAINS
AND WAS SENDING A COMPLEX WEATHER SYSTEM ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
WAS LIFTING OUT AHEAD OF THE UPPER SYSTEM AND HAD A TRAILING
COLD FRONT INTO OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS OVERTAKING A DRY LINE ACROSS
TEXAS. WITH PLENTY OF SUN DURING THE DAY AND A STRONG INFLOW OF
GULF MOISTURE INTO THE SYSTEMS...THE ATMOSPHERE IS UNSTABLE AND
WILL BE PRODUCING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF AND WITH
THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT
ASSOCIATED BETWEEN THE SURFACE LOW AND HIGH PRESSURE TO THE
SOUTHEAST WILL RESULT IN STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. A LAKE WIND
ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND
PARTS OF EAST AND NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA. THE SYSTEM
WILL BE MOVING QUICKLY ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION DURING THE
REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND DURING THE EVENING WITH THE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TAPERING OFF FROM WEST TO EAST WITH
SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE AREA. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL PHASE WITH THE MORE SOUTHERN TROUGH
CARVING OUT A LONGWAVE TROUGH ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. WITH RIDGING ON THE SURFACE AND ALOFT DRY
WEATHER WILL LAST INTO THE START OF THE WORK WEEK BUT A LARGE AND
CLOSED LOW WILL MOVE ALONG THE CANADA BORDER AND INTO THE UPPER
MID WEST WITH A RATHER BROAD TROUGH COVERING MUCH OF THE
EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY WITH A FLAT RIDGE ACROSS MEXICO AND
THE SOUTHERN STATES. THIS WILL RESULT IN RAIN CHANCES RETURNING TO
THE AREA BY LATER TUESDAY AND REMAINING INTO THE WEEKEND...WHEN A
BRIEF BUT WEAK RIDGING PATTERN ALOFT SHIFTS OVER THE GULF COAST
STATES. THIS MAY ALLOW FOR A DRY LATE WEEKEND. /06/

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV  56  73  49  77 /  60   0   0  10
MLU  59  73  49  77 /  60   0   0  10
DEQ  49  71  42  74 /  40   0   0  20
TXK  53  72  45  75 /  50   0   0  10
ELD  55  71  44  75 /  60   0   0  10
TYR  52  72  49  76 /  30   0   0  10
GGG  53  73  49  76 /  40   0   0  10
LFK  56  76  51  79 /  60   0   0  10

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
OK...NONE.
TX...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR TXZ096-
     108>111-124-125-136-137-149-150.

&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 12:29 PM CDT, 6 hours 47 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1229 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096-
097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-201100-
ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE-
CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD-
HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION-
MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA-
PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX-
SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR-
WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD-
1229 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND EAST AND NORTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER EAST
TEXAS...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS BY MID TO LATE
AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL THEN SPREAD EAST INTO NORTH LOUISIANA
ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF AN EASTWARD MOVING COLD FRONT...THAT
WILL HAVE OVERTAKEN A DRYLINE...OVER EAST CENTRAL TEXAS AND
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. STRONG SURFACE HEATING DURING THE
AFTERNOON WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...WITH
SOME OF THE STORMS BECOMING SEVERE THROUGH THIS EVENING...
WITH VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. STORMS MAY FORM INTO A CONVECTIVE
COMPLEX LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING...AND ACCELERATE
EAST SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE REGION AHEAD OF COLD FRONT. THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT WILL QUICKLY DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST THIS
EVENING...IN WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE REGION
WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY. A WEAK COLD FRONT
BACKDOORS SOUTHWEST INTO THE FOUR STATE REGION...AND STALLS ACROSS
NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND EAST TEXAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND AMATEUR
RADIO OPERATORS...WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS
THE REGION MAINLY AFTER 2 PM CDT INTO THE EVENING.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
611 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0604 PM     HAIL             1 N GARRISON            31.84N  94.49W
04/19/2015  E0.75 INCH       NACOGDOCHES        TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1500315

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Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:28 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
628 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0618 PM     HAIL             11 NNW CHIRENO          31.64N  94.41W
04/19/2015  E0.75 INCH       NACOGDOCHES        TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1500316

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Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:29 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
629 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0622 PM     HAIL             NACOGDOCHES             31.61N  94.65W
04/19/2015  E1.25 INCH       NACOGDOCHES        TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1500317

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Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:41 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
641 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     HAIL             MANY                    31.57N  93.47W
04/19/2015  E1.75 INCH       SABINE             LA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1500318

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Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:46 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
646 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0643 PM     HAIL             7 S PROVENCAL           31.55N  93.20W
04/19/2015  M1.75 INCH       NATCHITOCHES       LA   PUBLIC

            HAIL COVERING THE GROUND

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1500319

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Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:48 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
648 PM CDT SUN APR 19 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0643 PM     HAIL             SHREVEPORT              32.47N  93.80W
04/19/2015  M0.75 INCH       CADDO              LA   AMATEUR RADIO

            HAIL COVERING THE GROUND

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1500320

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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 19, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	40 min
Apr 19, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	43 min
Apr 19, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches	48 min
Apr 19, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	29 min
Apr 19, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches	59 min
Apr 19, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	63 min
Apr 19, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, LaSalle	28 min
Apr 19, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Ouachita	35 min
Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, LaSalle, Winn	60 min
Apr 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Grant	42 min
Apr 19, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Ouachita	52 min
Apr 19, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Grant, LaSalle	49 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.