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Tornado Warning 83, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 27, 2015, 4:26 PM CST for Columbia County, Nevada County, Arkansas. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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
- Dec 27, 2015, 4:26 PM CST (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2015, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Columbia County, AR, Nevada County, AR
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 4:36 PM CST | TORNADO | 3 Se Willisville, AR | AN EF-1 TORNADO SNAPPED AND UPROOTED HUNDREDS OF TREES...DAMAGED OR DESTROYED SEVERAL OUTBULDINGS...AND DAMAGED ROOFS OF SEVERAL HOMES ALONG ITS PATH. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 3.9 MILES...THE MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH WAS 353 YARDS...AND THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WINDS WERE 9 |
| Dec 27, 4:45 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Willisville, AR | DAMAGE WILLISVILLE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 2:47 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
684
WFUS54 KSHV 272226
TORSHV
ARC027-099-272300-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0083.151227T2226Z-151227T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
426 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN NEVADA COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...
* UNTIL 500 PM CST
* AT 426 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR WALDO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAGNOLIA...WALDO...MCNEIL...ROSSTON...WILLISVILLE...CALE...YOUNG...BETHEL...
LAMARTINE...MORRIS...COLLEGE HILL AND WATERLOO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3368 9311 3343 9312 3327 9324 3334 9341
3373 9323
TIME...MOT...LOC 2226Z 205DEG 43KT 3340 9327
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
191 follow-up statement
008
WWUS54 KSHV 272246
SVSSHV
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
446 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015
ARC027-272255-
/O.CAN.KSHV.TO.W.0083.000000T0000Z-151227T2300Z/
COLUMBIA AR-
446 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT
OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR SOUTHWESTERN
ARKANSAS.
LAT...LON 3368 9311 3350 9319 3346 9321 3349 9334
3373 9323
TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 205DEG 43KT 3361 9315
$$
ARC099-272300-
/O.CON.KSHV.TO.W.0083.000000T0000Z-151227T2300Z/
NEVADA AR-
446 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN NEVADA COUNTY...
AT 445 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITE OAK LAKE STATE PARK...OR 18 MILES WEST OF
CAMDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROSSTON...WILLISVILLE...CALE...MORRIS...WATERLOO AND YOUNG.
LAT...LON 3368 9311 3350 9319 3346 9321 3349 9334
3373 9323
TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 205DEG 43KT 3361 9315
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
19The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 5:42 AM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | SHV | Miller | 18 hr |
| Dec 27, 11:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Sevier | 38 min |
| Dec 27, 12:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Little River, Sevier | 12 hr |
| Dec 27, 12:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard | 12 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 43 min |
| Dec 27, 3:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 33 min |
| Dec 27, 3:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Nevada | 31 min |
| Dec 27, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 35 min |
| Dec 27, 3:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 23 min |
| Dec 27, 3:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette | 31 min |
| Dec 27, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 35 min |
| Dec 27, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 32 min |
| Dec 27, 4:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Howard, Sevier | 40 min |
| Dec 27, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 59 min |
| Dec 27, 4:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nevada | 17 min |
| Dec 27, 5:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Miller | 23 min |
| Dec 27, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller, Sevier | 46 min |
| Dec 27, 5:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Miller | 33 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.