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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2016, 6:59 PM CDT for Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- May 9, 2016, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Red River County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 9, 6:24 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 6:24 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 3:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 348 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077- TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-102100- SEVIER-HOWARD-LITTLE RIVER-HEMPSTEAD-NEVADA-MILLER-LAFAYETTE- COLUMBIA-UNION-CADDO-BOSSIER-WEBSTER-CLAIBORNE-LINCOLN-DE SOTO- RED RIVER-BIENVILLE-JACKSON-OUACHITA-SABINE-NATCHITOCHES-WINN- GRANT-CALDWELL-LA SALLE-MCCURTAIN-BOWIE-FRANKLIN-TITUS-CAMP- MORRIS-CASS-WOOD-UPSHUR-MARION-SMITH-GREGG-HARRISON-CHEROKEE-RUSK- PANOLA-NACOGDOCHES-SHELBY-ANGELINA-SAN AUGUSTINE- 348 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EAST TEXAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH ADVANCES EAST ONTO THE PLAINS AND MID SOUTH REGION. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THREATS INCLUDE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WITH ANY STORMS THAT DO BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO THE REGION BY THURSDAY AS A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED.
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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.