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Tornado Warning 105, NWS Shreveport, LA

December 26, 2024Natchitoches Parish, Sabine Parish, Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 26, 2024, 5:54 PM CST for Natchitoches Parish, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 36 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: Dec 26, 2024, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Dec 26, 2024, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

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 23:55 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
Dec 26, 11:34 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 331 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Dec 26, 5:33 PM CST, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 5:33 PM CST, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 26, 3:04 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 26, 3:07 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 26, 3:46 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 26, 4:31 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 26, 5:22 PM CST, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 26, 5:24 PM CST, 30 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
Dec 25, 7:59 PM CST	River Flood Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby	12 days
Dec 26, 12:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Shelby	32 min
Dec 26, 12:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Wood	49 min
Dec 26, 12:44 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Nacogdoches	46 min
Dec 26, 12:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Panola	44 min
Dec 26, 12:56 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Angelina	49 min
Dec 26, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Panola, San Augustine, Shelby	38 min
Dec 26, 2:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Panola	41 min
Dec 26, 3:07 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk and 2 more	4 hr
Dec 26, 3:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	44 min
Dec 26, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	50 min
Dec 26, 4:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine	44 min
Dec 26, 4:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Sabine, San Augustine	44 min
Dec 26, 5:22 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	38 min
Dec 26, 5:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Shelby	51 min
Dec 26, 5:33 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	SHV	Shelby	3 hr
Dec 26, 5:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine	38 min
Dec 26, 10:09 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Caddo	51 min
Dec 26, 3:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Sabine	38 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.