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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 17, 2023Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2023, 7:20 PM CDT for Bossier Parish, Webster Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 55 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 17, 2023, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2023, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bossier Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 5228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 21.2

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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 17, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:31 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:58 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:05 PM CDT, 15 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 17, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	61 min
Jun 18, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bowie	56 min
Jun 18, 3:17 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	17 hr
Jun 18, 3:17 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Rusk, Smith and 2 more	17 hr
Jun 18, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	40 min
Jun 18, 4:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus	53 min
Jun 18, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass	62 min
Jun 18, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris	36 min
Jun 18, 4:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris, Red River, Titus	24 min
Jun 18, 5:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	47 min
Jun 18, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Red River	46 min
Jun 18, 6:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus	54 min
Jun 18, 7:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris	36 min
Jun 18, 7:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	43 min
Jun 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	46 min
Jun 18, 2:40 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk and 5 more	29 hr
Jun 18, 2:40 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	SHV	Camp, Cass, Franklin, Harrison, Marion, Morris and 2 more	29 hr
Jun 17, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Webster	64 min
Jun 17, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Claiborne, Union	54 min
Jun 17, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Union	59 min
Jun 17, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Union	43 min
Jun 18, 3:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	33 min
Jun 18, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster	40 min
Jun 18, 6:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Lincoln, Union	66 min
Jun 18, 8:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Union, Webster	35 min
Jun 18, 9:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Webster	25 min
Jun 18, 10:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Lincoln	41 min
Jun 17, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Nevada, Sevier	34 min
Jun 17, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sevier	28 min
Jun 18, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Hempstead	30 min
Jun 18, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	38 min
Jun 18, 12:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Nevada	14 min
Jun 18, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Nevada	54 min
Jun 18, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	48 min
Jun 18, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	23 min
Jun 18, 5:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada, Union	34 min
Jun 18, 5:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sevier	44 min
Jun 18, 6:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River, Sevier	58 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.