1 tornado, 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 Apr 4, 10:40 AM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1040 AM CST FRI APR 4 2003 UPDATED A LITTLE EARLY THIS MORNING TO ACCOUNT FOR CONVECTION CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE PINEY WOODS OF EAST TEXAS. KEPT THINKING THAT CONVECTION WOULD SLOWLY DISSIPATE BUT INSTEAD...RATHER IMPRESSIVE CONVECTIVE BOW MAKING GOOD PROGRESS ACROSS CENTRAL TX AT THIS TIME. STORMS APPEAR ROOTED NEAR THE ELEVATED INVERSION AOA 3500FT BASED ON KFWD SOUNDING THIS MORNING. THIS ALSO EVIDENT AS BOW WENT ACROSS CRS ASOS WITH ONLY A WIND SHIFT AND NO MORE THAN 10 MPH WITH THE SHIFT. MADE A GENERAL INCREASE IN POPS AREAWIDE TODAY BUT MORE SO IN THE WEST. SOME LIGHT RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING OUT AHEAD OF THE CONVECTION ACROSS NW LA/SW AR WHERE LIFT IS INCREASING. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT CONVECTION SHOULD HAMPER HEATING TODAY..AT LEAST ACROSS NW LA AND PERHAPS S CENTRAL AR. DISTANCE TIME/SPEED LOOPS SHOWING CONVECTION OUT WEST MOVING THIS WAY NEAR 40KTS WITH MOST OF THE ACTIVITY EAST OF NE TX BY 2-3 PM THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE CLEARING LINE ANOTHER HOUR OR SO BEHIND THIS. MAY STILL SEE ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR SOME SURFACE BASED STORMS THIS EVENING IF AND WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE CAN RECOVER AS THE DRY LINE APPROACHES OUT WEST...WE SHALL SEE. UPDATE ALREADY SENT...13. .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>167-051200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CST FRI APR 4 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE FOUR STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED THIS MORNING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH TONIGHT. THIS ACTIVITY COULD HELP TO STABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT. A DRYLINE WILL APPROACH EASTERN TEXAS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT TONIGHT AND THIS COULD HELP TO INITIATE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE BEST CHANCE OF ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS TO BE ALONG THE INTERSTATE 20 AND INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDORS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WOULD BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES COULD ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH AND SUPERCELL STORMS THAT DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE. ANY DEVELOPING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING WOULD PROPAGATE EASTWARD AND AFFECT NORTHWEST LOUISIANA WITH MORE OF A HAIL AND WIND THREAT. THE SEVERE THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH LATE TONIGHT AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES MORE STABLE ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE FOUR STATE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. THE COLD FRONT THAT WILL ENTER THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE REGION TONIGHT WILL STALL OUT OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS OR EXTREME NORTHERN LOUISIANA SATURDAY MORNING. THE FRONT WILL THEN BEGIN TO LIFT NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT BY EVENING... AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPS OVER THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER MUCH OF OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS SATURDAY NIGHT...AS THE WARM FRONT MOVES NORTHWARD INTO THE RED RIVER VALLEY. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE WILL FEED ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE NORTHWARD...ALLOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO EXPAND IN COVERAGE OVER MCCURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA...MUCH OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS...AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA BY SUNRISE SUNDAY. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE...WILL DEVELOP OVER MUCH OF THE AREA SUNDAY...AS THIS SAME STORM SYSTEM MOVES EAST INTO THE MIDWEST. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL FINALLY END LATE SUNDAY...AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED BY LATE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A classic supercell thunderstorm moved northeastward across the county producing a weak tornado. No structural damage was seen. The tornado was confined to timber and farmland regions snapping and uprooting numerous small to medium Pine, Oak and Pecan trees.
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