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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Shreveport, LA

April 29, 2026Little River County, Sevier County, Arkansas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2026, 5:31 PM CDT for Little River County, Sevier County, Arkansas. It was in force for 17 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: Apr 29, 2026, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2026, 5:48 PM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Shreveport, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Little River County, AR, Sevier County, AR

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 305 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 14.1

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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 Apr 29, 1:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 1:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 29, 4:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 4:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 4:47 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 5:07 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 5:27 PM CDT, 4 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
Apr 29, 9:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Titus	33 min
Apr 29, 10:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Morris	48 min
Apr 29, 10:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cass	52 min
Apr 29, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bowie, Cass, Morris	60 min
Apr 29, 11:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass	54 min
Apr 29, 11:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Camp	57 min
Apr 29, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Upshur, Wood	45 min
Apr 29, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Cass, Marion, Morris	45 min
Apr 29, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cass, Harrison, Marion	57 min
Apr 29, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Upshur	39 min
Apr 29, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Upshur	60 min
Apr 29, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion	50 min
Apr 29, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Smith	59 min
Apr 29, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Red River	43 min
Apr 29, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Panola	40 min
Apr 29, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk, Smith	67 min
Apr 29, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk	38 min
Apr 29, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Nacogdoches, Rusk	48 min
Apr 29, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne	62 min
Apr 29, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bossier, Claiborne, Webster	63 min
Apr 29, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Union	67 min
Apr 29, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Claiborne, Lincoln, Union	53 min
Apr 29, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	47 min
Apr 29, 2:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Caldwell	56 min
Apr 29, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Winn	52 min
Apr 29, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Webster	25 min
Apr 29, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River	29 min
Apr 29, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Grant	60 min
Apr 29, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	65 min
Apr 29, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Grant	37 min
Apr 28, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Nevada	48 min
Apr 29, 11:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lafayette, Miller	55 min
Apr 29, 11:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Little River	38 min
Apr 29, 12:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Nevada	25 min
Apr 29, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SHV	Howard	41 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.