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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 24, 2021Wood County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2021, 6:58 PM CDT for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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: Mar 24, 2021, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 2021, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 24, 7:20 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	Yantis, TX	BUSTED WINDSHIELD AT YANTIS FOOD MART.

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
Mar 24, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

931 
WUUS54 KSHV 242358
SVRSHV
TXC499-250045-
/O.NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0026.210324T2358Z-210325T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
658 PM CDT Wed Mar 24 2021

The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Wood County in northeastern Texas...

* Until 745 PM CDT.

* At 658 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast 
  of Emory, or 14 miles northwest of Mineola, moving northeast at 30 
  mph.

  HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail 
           damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect 
           wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Forest Hill, Alba and Yantis. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

If on or near Lake Fork, get away from the water and move indoors or 
inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 15 miles 
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close 
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now!  Do not 
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.

&&

LAT...LON 3296 9540 3275 9564 3296 9567
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 222DEG 25KT 3279 9570 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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1 follow-up statement

345 
WWUS54 KSHV 250039
SVSSHV

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
739 PM CDT Wed Mar 24 2021

TXC499-250048-
/O.EXP.KSHV.SV.W.0026.000000T0000Z-210325T0045Z/
Wood TX-
739 PM CDT Wed Mar 24 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WOOD COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 745 PM CDT...
        
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
northeastern Texas.

LAT...LON 3296 9540 3275 9564 3296 9567
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 222DEG 25KT 3299 9548 

$$

15

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Wood	43 min
Mar 24, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Wood	41 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.