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Lake Wind Advisory 15, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 20, 202116 counties in Texas; Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Louisiana; 6 counties in Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this lake wind advisory at Apr 20, 2021, 4:40 AM CDT for 16 counties in Texas; Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish, Louisiana; 6 counties in Arkansas. It took effect at Apr 20, 2021, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 20, 2021, 4:40 AM CDT (09:40 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 20, 2021, 2:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 20, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
All 24 counties

Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Panola County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 260 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2021-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2021-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Apr 19, 1:57 PM CDT, 14 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:57 PM CDT, 14 hours 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 1:23 PM CDTFreeze WarningSHVBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 1 more20 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Texas, 2021Lake Wind Advisories in Arkansas, 2021Lake Wind Advisories in Louisiana, 2021Every lake wind advisory in 2021

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.