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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Shreveport, LA

May 9, 2016Bowie County, Texas; Little River County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2016, 10:30 PM CDT for Bowie County, Texas; Little River County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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: May 9, 2016, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2016, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Little River County, AR, Bowie County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 10.9

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The text

As transmitted.

233 
WFUS54 KSHV 100330
TORSHV
ARC081-TXC037-100415-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0064.160510T0330Z-160510T0415Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1030 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LITTLE RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS...
  EAST CENTRAL BOWIE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
    
* AT 1030 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR RICHMOND...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  ASHDOWN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  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. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RICHMOND AROUND 1045 PM CDT. 
  ASHDOWN AROUND 1110 PM CDT. 
  OGDEN AROUND 1115 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE PINE
PRAIRIE...RED BLUFF AND MILLWOOD.

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.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY HIDE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE
TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW!

&&

LAT...LON 3360 9390 3352 9433 3364 9439 3375 9403
TIME...MOT...LOC 0330Z 255DEG 13KT 3359 9428 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

922 
WWUS54 KSHV 100410
SVSSHV

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1110 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

ARC081-TXC037-100419-
/O.EXP.KSHV.TO.W.0064.000000T0000Z-160510T0415Z/
LITTLE RIVER AR-BOWIE TX-
1110 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LITTLE RIVER AND EAST CENTRAL
BOWIE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 1115 PM CDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS
ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM EAST OF ASHDOWN SOUTHEAST 
TO EAST OF OGDEN ARKANSAS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
ARKANSAS...AND NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3360 9390 3352 9433 3364 9439 3375 9403
TIME...MOT...LOC 0407Z 255DEG 13KT 3359 9428 

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	46 min
May 9, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Red River	45 min
May 9, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	57 min
May 9, 8:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SHV	Bowie, Red River	3 hr
May 9, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Red River	47 min
May 9, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	56 min
May 9, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	53 min
May 9, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Red River	48 min
May 9, 9:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	3 hr
May 9, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bowie	45 min
May 9, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Franklin, Red River	56 min
May 9, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	53 min
May 9, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie	32 min
May 9, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	30 min
May 9, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Howard, Sevier	42 min
May 9, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard, Sevier	36 min
May 9, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Sevier	52 min
May 9, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada	63 min
May 10, 12:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller	4 hr
May 10, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Lafayette, Union	61 min
May 10, 1:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Union	40 min

Nearby

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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.