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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2016, 1:44 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- Mar 8, 2016, 1:44 PM CST (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2016, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Camp County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 415 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
570
WFUS54 KSHV 081944
TORSHV
TXC063-159-459-499-082015-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0002.160308T1944Z-160308T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
144 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN CAMP COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN TEXAS...
NORTHEASTERN WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN TEXAS...
NORTHWESTERN UPSHUR COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN TEXAS...
SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN TEXAS...
* UNTIL 215 PM CST
* AT 144 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR HAINESVILLE...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF WINNSBORO...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 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...
WINNSBORO...NEWSOME...SCROGGINS AND PERRYVILLE.
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 3309 9523 3295 9508 3270 9531 3277 9542
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 211DEG 47KT 3279 9532
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
092 follow-up statements
428
WWUS54 KSHV 081954
SVSSHV
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
154 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016
TXC063-159-459-499-082015-
/O.CON.KSHV.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160308T2015Z/
CAMP TX-WOOD TX-UPSHUR TX-FRANKLIN TX-
154 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM CST FOR
SOUTHWESTERN CAMP...NORTHEASTERN WOOD...NORTHWESTERN UPSHUR AND
SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES...
AT 154 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER SCROGGINS...OR NEAR WINNSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60
MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WINNSBORO...NEWSOME...SCROGGINS AND PERRYVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3309 9523 3295 9508 3281 9521 3293 9533
TIME...MOT...LOC 1954Z 209DEG 51KT 3296 9522
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
09965
WWUS54 KSHV 082006
SVSSHV
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
206 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016
TXC063-159-459-499-082015-
/O.EXP.KSHV.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160308T2015Z/
CAMP TX-WOOD TX-UPSHUR TX-FRANKLIN TX-
206 PM CST TUE MAR 8 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN CAMP...NORTHEASTERN WOOD...
NORTHWESTERN UPSHUR AND SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT
215 PM CST...
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED AND THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED. HOWEVER...HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN LIKELY AND A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR NORTHEASTERN
TEXAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 300 PM CST.
LAT...LON 3309 9523 3295 9508 3281 9521 3293 9533
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 211DEG 47KT 3296 9522
$$
09The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Gregg | 6 days |
| Mar 8, 10:20 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Anderson, Cherokee, Houston | 22 days |
| Mar 8, 10:20 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Anderson, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity | 24 days |
| Mar 8, 10:20 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Angelina, Houston, Polk, Trinity, Tyler | 27 days |
| Mar 8, 10:20 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Sabine, San Augustine | 4 days |
| Mar 8, 10:25 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Smith, Wood | 19 days |
| Mar 8, 10:26 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus | 12 days |
| Mar 8, 10:27 AM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Franklin, Morris, Titus | 8 days |
| Mar 8, 11:40 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Red River | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Smith, Upshur, Wood | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 1:55 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches, Rusk | 5 days |
| Mar 8, 1:56 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 12 days |
| Mar 8, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Franklin, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 3 more | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 1:59 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie, Red River | 5 days |
| Mar 8, 2:01 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Smith | 5 days |
| Mar 8, 2:03 PM CST | River Flood Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby | 13 days |
| Mar 8, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Sabine, Shelby | 38 min |
| Mar 8, 3:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Morris | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:06 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | SHV | Cass, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Rusk | 3 hr |
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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.