1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 20, 1:00 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 200 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2002 DAYTIME HEATING IS PROVIDING CONVECTION BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE DEEP MOISTURE WE HAD THIS MORNING. RADAR IS LIT UP WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY SOUTH OF I20. A BRIEF RESPITE FROM THE WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OBSERVED...AS WE START THE WEEKEND. DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN FROM THE NORTHEAST TONIGHT. MOISTURE WILL RETURN DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEKEND...AS THE UPPER RIDGE MOVES OFF TO THE NORTHEAST ALLOWING AN UPPER LEVEL LOW TO APPROACH THE AREA SATURDAY EVENING. NOT MUCH CHANGE IN TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED...AS HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE. PRELIMS... SHV 71/93/69/90 2000 MLU 70/93/69/90 2000 TXK 71/91/69/89 1000 TYR 72/90/70/90 2000 LFK 71/92/70/91 2000 ELEVEN .SHV...NONE.
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-201630- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1030 AM CDT THU JUN 20 2002 DECENT MOISTURE AVAILABILITY WILL GIVE THE AREA A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN WIDELY SCATTERED...AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL HAVE A DOMINATE AFFECT ON THE AREA. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL COME BY WAY OF THE SEA BREEZE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO...AND THIS WILL GIVE THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...HOWEVER AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND SKYWARN NETWORKS...WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:18 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 64 year old man was struck by lightning and was found conscious and breathing when emergency personnel arrived at his residence. The man was transported to Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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