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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 11, 20234 counties in Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2023, 10:45 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2023, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2023, 11:25 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Camp County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 2459 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 9:49 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:49 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 6:00 AM CDT, 16 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 10:42 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 9:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Red River	51 min
Jun 11, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Red River	44 min
Jun 11, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Red River	47 min
Jun 12, 10:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Red River	42 min
Jun 12, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	60 min
Jun 12, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine	59 min
Jun 12, 12:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Natchitoches	23 min
Jun 12, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Grant, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Winn	58 min
Jun 12, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	61 min
Jun 12, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Red River, Winn	63 min
Jun 12, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	28 min
Jun 11, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River, Sevier	61 min
Jun 11, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Hempstead	43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.