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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Shreveport, LA

March 31, 20254 parishes in Louisiana

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2025, 2:18 AM CDT for 4 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 57 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 31, 2025, 2:18 AM CDT (07:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2025, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Destructive
Hail: 2.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Caldwell Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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 31, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 2093 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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 Mar 31, 1:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 1:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 1:23 AM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 1:46 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 1:58 AM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 2:13 AM CDT, 5 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 30, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	50 min
Mar 30, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk	42 min
Mar 30, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee	47 min
Mar 30, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola, Rusk, Shelby	33 min
Mar 30, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk	41 min
Mar 30, 9:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk	4 hr
Mar 30, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee	27 min
Mar 30, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee	27 min
Mar 30, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk	27 min
Mar 30, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Panola, Rusk, Shelby	35 min
Mar 30, 9:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Rusk	24 min
Mar 30, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Rusk	32 min
Mar 30, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby	31 min
Mar 30, 9:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby	4 hr
Mar 30, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Rusk	25 min
Mar 30, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby	32 min
Mar 30, 10:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Rusk	26 min
Mar 30, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	34 min
Mar 30, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Shelby	45 min
Mar 30, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk	26 min
Mar 30, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Panola, Rusk	42 min
Mar 30, 11:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Nacogdoches	24 min
Mar 30, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	41 min
Mar 30, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk	48 min
Mar 31, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk	40 min
Mar 31, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Shelby	37 min
Mar 31, 12:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, Shelby	65 min
Mar 31, 1:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Shelby	37 min
Mar 31, 1:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk	58 hr
Mar 31, 1:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby	13 days
Mar 31, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	37 min
Mar 31, 1:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Angelina, San Augustine	32 min
Mar 31, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Sabine	35 min
Mar 31, 2:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Angelina	44 min
Mar 31, 3:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Angelina, Sabine, San Augustine	39 min
Mar 31, 1:59 PM CDT	Flood Watch	SHV	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River and 1 more	5 days
Mar 30, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	De Soto	29 min
Mar 31, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Webster	49 min
Mar 31, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Red River, Sabine	30 min
Mar 31, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine	27 min
Mar 31, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Union	42 min
Mar 31, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bienville, Grant, Natchitoches, Red River, Winn	27 min
Mar 31, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Caldwell, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Winn	43 min
Mar 31, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	25 min
Mar 31, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Grant, LaSalle, Winn	43 min
Mar 31, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Red River, Winn	34 min
Mar 31, 3:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, LaSalle	13 min
Mar 31, 3:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Grant	40 min
Mar 31, 3:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	LaSalle	43 min
Mar 30, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Little River	23 min
Mar 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Hempstead	43 min
Mar 30, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Nevada	26 min
Mar 31, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Union	14 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.