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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2017, 3:49 PM CDT for Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 41 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
- Apr 2, 2017, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2017, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Caldwell Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Grayson, LA | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. CAR DESTROYED BY FALLING TREE. BARN BLOWN DOWN. |
| Apr 2, 4:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Grayson, LA | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. TREE DESTROYED BY FALLING TREE. BARN BLOWN DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:39 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WFUS54 KSHV 022049
TORSHV
LAC021-022130-
/O.NEW.KSHV.TO.W.0046.170402T2049Z-170402T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
349 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2017
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Southeastern Caldwell Parish in north central Louisiana...
* Until 430 PM CDT
* At 348 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Rosefield, or 10 miles south of Columbia, moving
northeast at 40 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.
* This tornadic thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southeastern Caldwell Parish.
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 3209 9187 3209 9190 3208 9190 3209 9191
3207 9193 3206 9191 3201 9189 3193 9196
3193 9215 3217 9197 3216 9190 3214 9190
3212 9188 3212 9187
TIME...MOT...LOC 2048Z 218DEG 36KT 3195 9208
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
351 follow-up statement
531
WWUS54 KSHV 022113
SVSSHV
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
413 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2017
LAC021-022130-
/O.CON.KSHV.TO.W.0046.000000T0000Z-170402T2130Z/
Caldwell LA-
413 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2017
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN CALDWELL PARISH...
At 412 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located 7 miles north of Rosefield, or 8 miles southeast of
Columbia, moving northeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is
likely.
This tornadic thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southeastern Caldwell Parish.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 3209 9187 3209 9190 3208 9190 3209 9191
3207 9193 3206 9191 3201 9189 3197 9193
3202 9204 3216 9190 3214 9190 3212 9188
3212 9187
TIME...MOT...LOC 2112Z 232DEG 11KT 3200 9198
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
35The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 11 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | De Soto, Red River | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River, Webster | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 10:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto, Sabine | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 11:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | De Soto, Sabine | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | De Soto | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Ouachita | 63 min |
| Apr 2, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Webster | 18 min |
| Apr 2, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 1:41 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Webster | 45 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:42 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SHV | Webster | 19 days |
| Apr 2, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto, Sabine | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Winn | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Ouachita | 24 min |
| Apr 2, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River and 1 more | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine | 64 min |
| Apr 2, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Caldwell, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita and 1 more | 55 min |
| Apr 2, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Winn | 20 min |
| Apr 2, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Red River, Winn | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle | 18 min |
| Apr 2, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle, Winn | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, Winn | 17 min |
| Apr 2, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caldwell, LaSalle | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant, Natchitoches, Winn | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bienville, Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Natchitoches and 1 more | 78 min |
| Apr 2, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita, Union | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caldwell, LaSalle, Winn | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 5:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Sabine, Winn | 10 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant | 50 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.