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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 11, 2016Bienville Parish, Claiborne Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2016, 4:14 PM CDT for Bienville Parish, Claiborne Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 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 11, 2016, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bienville Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

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 11, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 520 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 389 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

328 
WUUS54 KSHV 112114
SVRSHV
LAC013-027-119-112200-
/O.NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0093.160411T2114Z-160411T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
414 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BIENVILLE PARISH IN NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  SOUTHEASTERN WEBSTER PARISH IN NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...
  SOUTHWESTERN CLAIBORNE PARISH IN NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 413 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER HEFLIN...OR 8
  MILES SOUTH OF MINDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 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. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MINDEN...ARCADIA...SIBLEY...GIBSLAND...DOYLINE...DUBBERLY...HEFLIN...
  ATHENS...MOUNT LEBANON...NOLES LANDING...OGDEN...ADA AND LAKE BISTINEAU
  NORTH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3241 9333 3252 9344 3275 9300 3248 9288
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 243DEG 42KT 3249 9326 

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

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1 follow-up statement

898 
WWUS54 KSHV 112148
SVSSHV

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
448 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

LAC119-112156-
/O.CAN.KSHV.SV.W.0093.000000T0000Z-160411T2200Z/
WEBSTER LA-
448 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WEBSTER PARISH IS
CANCELLED...
    
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA.

LAT...LON 3248 9311 3259 9318 3275 9300 3248 9288
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 243DEG 42KT 3267 9284 

$$

LAC013-027-112200-
/O.CON.KSHV.SV.W.0093.000000T0000Z-160411T2200Z/
BIENVILLE LA-CLAIBORNE LA-
448 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN BIENVILLE AND SOUTH CENTRAL CLAIBORNE PARISHES...

AT 446 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
ATHENS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 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. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ARCADIA...GIBSLAND...ATHENS...MOUNT LEBANON AND ADA. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3248 9311 3259 9318 3275 9300 3248 9288
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 243DEG 42KT 3267 9284 

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 11, 3:23 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 3:23 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
323 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

.DISCUSSION...
MULTIPLE AREAS OF CONVECTION CONTINUE ACROSS OUR REGION AND THOSE
ADJACENT. INITIAL WAVE THAT AFFECTED OUR NRN PORTIONS ALONG A
STALLED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY OVER THE LAST
HOUR OR SO. TSTMS ACROSS SRN OK AND ACROSS DEEP E TX SEEM TO BE
BEING AIDED BY SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS TX...ALTHOUGH EACH IS
WORKING WITH DIFFERENT SFC FEATURES. OK STORMS FORMING ALONG
DEVELOPING COLD FRONT...WHILE FURTHER S THE STORMS SEEM TO BE
WORKING ON THE EDGE OF THE ENTRAINING DRY MID LEVEL AIR. EXPECT
FOR MORE STORMS TO DEVELOP/MOVE INTO OUR REGION LATER THIS
AFTERNOON/TONIGHT WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS...AND ISOLD TORNADOES AS THE SHORTWAVE PUSHES EWD. SVR
WATCHES 84 AND 85 REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM AND 9 PM
RESPECTIVELY...AND WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF SOME PORTION OF THE
WATCH NEEDS TO BE EXTENDED TO SEE US THROUGH THE END OF THE EVENT.
CONVECTION SHOULD BE WINDING DOWN/MOVING OUT OF OUR REGION BY
AROUND MIDNIGHT...AS THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING EVENTUALLY DIMINISHES
AVAILABLE INSTABILITY.

COOLER TEMPS EXPECTED FOR TUE/WED IN THE WAKE OF TODAY'S COLD
FRONT. HOWEVER...VERY LITTLE RECOVERY IS EXPECTED AS THE SHORTWAVE
MOVES EWD AND ANOTHER TROF APPROACHES FROM THE W. SHWRS/TSTMS WILL
MOVE BACK INTO THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE TO BE
POSSIBLE THROUGH MUCH OF THURSDAY BEFORE THE SLOW-MOVING TROF
MOVES INTO THE MID MS VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY.

SLY FLOW AT THE SFC WILL KEEP OUR TEMPS NEAR NORMAL FOR THE END OF
THE WORK WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER SLOW-MOVING CLOSED
UPPER LOW WILL DRIFT EWD INTO THE NM AND BRING SHWRS/TSTMS TO THE
REGION ONCE AGAIN FOR THE WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WORK WEEK. MODEL
SOLUTIONS DIVERGE JUST BEYOND THE SEVEN DAY PD...SO LOOK FOR POPS
TO REMAIN CONSERVATIVE UNTIL THESE SOLUTIONS COME INTO BETTER
AGREEMENT. /12/

&&

AVIATION...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS AREA TERMINALS
AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. CEILINGS TO TRANSITION TO
MVFR/IFR AFTER 12/00Z WITH -TSRA CONDITIONS CONTINUING OVERNIGHT.
EXPECT IMPROVING CONDITIONS AFTER 12/12Z. OTHERWISE...SOUTH TO
SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 10 TO 15 KNOTS WITH HIGHER GUSTS TO BECOME
NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT INTO TUESDAY. /05/

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV  59  68  52  69 /  60  10  50  40
MLU  58  67  52  69 /  80  20  30  40
DEQ  53  67  47  67 /  80   0  30  20
TXK  53  66  49  67 /  70  10  40  20
ELD  52  66  49  67 /  80  10  20  20
TYR  58  68  53  69 /  40  10  60  40
GGG  58  68  52  69 /  40  10  60  40
LFK  65  74  56  70 /  40  20  60  40

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
OK...NONE.
TX...NONE.
&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 11, 10:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1040 AM CDT MON APR 11 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>167-121545-
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-
1040 AM CDT MON APR 11 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP...INCREASING
IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. SEVERE STORMS
ARE LIKELY AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS...AND A FEW TORNADOES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

FOR MIDWEEK...ANOTHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EASTWARD BRINGING MORE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...MAINLY ALONG
AND SOUTH OF I 20. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE
WEEKEND AS WELL...AS ANOTHER DISTURBANCE APPROACHES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AMATEUR RADIO
OPERATORS AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED LATER TODAY.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 11, 2:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
204 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0158 PM     HAIL             EL DORADO               33.22N  92.66W
04/11/2016  E1.25 INCH       UNION              AR   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            EL DORADO CORONER REPORTS HAIL HALF DOLLAR SIZE IN THE
            CITY.

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600311

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Local storm report, Apr 11, 2:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
206 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0202 PM     HAIL             EL DORADO               33.22N  92.66W
04/11/2016  E0.88 INCH       UNION              AR   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            CITY POLICE REPORT PEA TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY
            RAIN

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600312

27

Local storm report, Apr 11, 2:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
225 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0215 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MAGNOLIA                33.27N  93.24W
04/11/2016                   COLUMBIA           AR   PUBLIC

            TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN MEMORIAL PARK DRIVE AND
            HIGHWAY 82

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600313

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Special weather statement, Apr 11, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
311 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

ARZ051-OKZ077-112100-
HOWARD AR-MCCURTAIN OK-
311 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN HOWARD AND NORTHERN
MCCURTAIN COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

AT 310 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTHEAST OF NASHOBA...OR 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLAYTON...MOVING
EAST AT 50 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WICKES...MOUNT HERMAN...PLUNKETVILLE...BATTIEST...WATSON...PICKENS...
BETHEL...SHERWOOD AND SMITHVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...AND SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA.

LAT...LON 3451 9446 3430 9447 3431 9426 3436 9425
      3436 9418 3425 9418 3425 9424 3430 9426
      3429 9447 3424 9447 3422 9515 3424 9515
      3425 9505 3451 9505
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 260DEG 44KT 3439 9515

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Local storm report, Apr 11, 3:43 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
343 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

1245 PM     TSTM WND DMG     TEXARKANA               33.45N  94.02W
04/11/2016                   MILLER             AR   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            THE CITY OF TEXARKANA HAS RECEIVED LOTS OF DAMAGE DUE
            TO STRAIGHT LINES WINDS. LARGE TREE LIMBS GREATER THAN 2
            INCHES SNAPPED OFF WITH NICKEL SIZE HAIL SOME MINOR
            STREET FLOODING OVER AN INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 45
            MINUTES.

&&

CORRECTED EVENT TIME...REMARKS

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600309

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Local storm report, Apr 11, 3:57 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
357 PM CDT MON APR 11 2016

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

0325 PM     HAIL             BATTIEST                34.40N  94.93W
04/11/2016  E1.75 INCH       MCCURTAIN          OK   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER SHV1600314

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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 11, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Union	49 min
Apr 11, 3:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bienville, Claiborne, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	9 hr
Apr 11, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	52 min
Apr 11, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	46 min
Apr 11, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Claiborne, Webster	39 min
Apr 11, 5:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bossier, Claiborne, Union, Webster	6 hr
Apr 11, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	42 min
Apr 11, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Lincoln	48 min
Apr 11, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Ouachita	25 min
Apr 11, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Bienville	45 min
Apr 11, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Lincoln, Union	59 min
Apr 11, 6:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita	6 hr
Apr 11, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville	24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.