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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2026, 4:46 PM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 16, 2026, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2026, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Camp County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Cherokee | 62 min |
| Jul 16, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Smith, Wood | 64 min |
| Jul 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Red River | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Morris | 29 min |
| Jul 16, 6:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Morris | 42 min |
| Jul 16, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass, Morris | 38 min |
| Jul 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Bowie | 49 min |
| Jul 15, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Hempstead | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 7:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SHV | Nevada | 24 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.