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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 26, 2023Natchitoches Parish, Sabine Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2023, 4:26 PM CDT for Natchitoches Parish, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 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: Mar 26, 2023, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2023, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Natchitoches Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 26, 12:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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 Mar 26, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 3:59 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 26, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 4:08 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 26, 4:10 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 4:10 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 4:16 PM CDT, 10 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
Mar 26, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Angelina, San Augustine	45 min
Mar 26, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine	55 min
Mar 26, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	San Augustine	41 min
Mar 26, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine	68 min
Mar 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	San Augustine	50 min
Mar 26, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	San Augustine	39 min
Mar 26, 1:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	De Soto	39 min
Mar 26, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River, Webster	40 min
Mar 26, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	50 min
Mar 26, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln	39 min
Mar 26, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Red River, Winn	44 min
Mar 26, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Natchitoches, Winn	47 min
Mar 26, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	67 min
Mar 26, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Lincoln	44 min
Mar 26, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Caldwell, Ouachita	34 min
Mar 26, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Winn	67 min
Mar 26, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Winn	54 min
Mar 26, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	67 min
Mar 26, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	50 min
Mar 26, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	De Soto, Red River	59 min
Mar 26, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Winn	30 min
Mar 26, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	LaSalle	37 min
Mar 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Lincoln	45 min
Mar 26, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	62 min
Mar 26, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	43 min
Mar 26, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Union	48 min
Mar 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	37 min
Mar 26, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Ouachita	39 min
Mar 26, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Winn	52 min
Mar 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	35 min
Mar 26, 6:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Ouachita, Winn	51 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.