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 Aug 15, 9:00 AM CST, 3 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2005 .DISCUSSION... CURRENT GRIDS LOOK GOOD. NO UPDATE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 417 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2005) DISCUSSION... DIFFICULT FORECAST THIS MORNING...AND WORKSTATION CRASHES DOESN/T HELP EITHER...BUT SUBTLE DIFFERENCES AS SHOWN IN THE MODELS THIS MORNING WITH BE THE KEY IN WHO GETS RAIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...AND WHO GETS THE HEAT INSTEAD. UPPER AIR ANALYSIS FROM 00Z REGIONAL RAOB PLOT INDICATED THAT THE MID/UPPER LEVEL RIDGING REMAINS IN PLACE OVER TN/E MS/AL...WHICH IS INITIALIZED WELL IN THE MODELS THIS MORNING...HOWEVER PLACEMENT OF THIS FEATURE BY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY VARIES A BIT. MEANWHILE...OUR STATIONARY FRONT STILL LIES FROM CENTRAL MO...INTO NE OK...INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF N TX. 20-25 KT LLJ HAS ENHANCED A LARGE AREA OF CONVECTION ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AGAIN THIS MORNING...WITH PORTIONS OF THIS RAIN AREA SKIRTIN MCCURTAIN CO ATTM. BELIEVE MOST OF THIS CONVECTION WILL REMAIN PRETTY MUCH IN PLACE THROUGH THE DAY...THUS WILL CONCENTRATE BEST POPS FOR FAR NW ZONES...AS THIS ACTIVITY COULD BUILD E A BIT ON OUTFLOWS AS SEEN THE LAST COUPLE OF MORNINGS. OTHERWISE...WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE AFTERNOON SEABREEZE TO KICK IN AND BRING RAIN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. ALREADY SEEING ISOLATED CONVECTION JUST OFFSHORE THE S LA COAST THIS MORNING...WHICH SHOULD ADVANCE N TODAY ACROSS E TX/W LA...WHERE THE FLOW WILL BE STRONGEST. HIGH PW/S IN PLACE...JUST SHY OF 2...WILL YIELD EFFICIENT RAINFALL PRODUCERS ONCE CONVECTION GETS GOING...THUS SOME STORMS COULD BE INTENSE WITH HEATING AS WAS THE CASE OF E TX SUNDAY. HOWEVER...STILL SCRATCHING MY HEAD AS TO WHAT THE RIDGE TO OUR E WILL DO...THE NAM/GFS/UKMET BEGINS TO RETROGRADE IT WSW TOWARDS THE REGION TONIGHT...AND ANCHORING IT OVER THE AREA TUESDAY. THE NAM APPEARS A BIT STRONGER TUESDAY...AS THE WEAK FRONT TO THE NW/850MB TROUGH BEGIN TO DRIFT ESE ACROSS E OK/W AR..AND POSSIBLY ACROSS OUR N SW AR COUNTIES. THE GFS/UKMET SHOWS A WEAKNESS IN THE RIDGE...ALLOWING SCATTERED CONVECTION TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE N ZONES...SPREADING SE ACROSS N LA TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MOS POPS VARY FROM SLIGHT CHANCE TO LIKELY OVER THE AREA...BUT WILL CARRY LOW CHANCE POPS AREAWIDE BUT E TX S OF I-20. HOWEVER...GOTTA WONDER IF THE RIDGING IN PLACE OVER CENTRAL/S LA WILL INHIBIT SCATTERED DEVELOPMENT. OTHERWISE...THE WESTERN BRANCH OF THE BERMUDA RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO SHIFT W ACROSS THE GULF STATES/N GULF AROUND MIDWEEK...AND INTO THE REGION THURSDAY...ANCHORING ITSELF HERE THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEKEND. THE HEAT...AND ONLY ISOLATED CONVECTION/IF ANY...ARE A GOOD BET AS THE DOG DAYS OF AUGUST DRAG ON. HOWEVER...UPPER FLOW MAY BEGIN TO TRANSITION TO NW EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A DEEP LOW MOVES OVER THE NORTHERN GREAT LAKES REGION...WITH ATTENDENT DEEP TROUGH OVER THE OHIO/TN VALLIES. THIS IN TURN MAY TRY AND SEND A WEAK COLD FRONT INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...HOWEVER...IT APPEARS NOW IT MAY JUST GLANCE US WITH LITTLE IF ANY RELIEF...WITH LARGE RIDGING BUILDING ALONG THE W COAST. TEMPWISE TODAY...MAYBE A TAD COOLER TODAY THAN YESTERDAY...STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW DEQ MADE 99 WITH NO RAIN SUNDAY. AC/CIRRUS DECK SHOULD THIN WITH HEATING...ALTHOUGH TEMPS MAY BUST OVER THE NW ZONES IF DENSE CLOUD/RAIN HOLDS A BETTER PART OF THE DAY. PRELIMS ARE NEXT... && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 96 74 96 74 / 30 20 30 20 MLU 97 73 96 73 / 30 20 30 20 DEQ 91 70 93 70 / 40 30 30 20 TXK 94 73 95 73 / 30 20 30 20 ELD 96 73 96 72 / 30 20 30 20 TYR 94 73 95 74 / 40 20 20 20 GGG 95 73 95 74 / 40 20 20 20 LFK 94 73 95 74 / 40 20 20 20 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 17/44
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT MON AUG 15 2005 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-161100- ANGELINA-BIENVILLE-BOSSIER-BOWIE-CADDO-CALDWELL-CAMP-CASS-CHEROKEE- CLAIBORNE-COLUMBIA-DE SOTO-FRANKLIN-GRANT-GREGG-HARRISON-HEMPSTEAD- HOWARD-JACKSON-LA SALLE-LAFAYETTE-LINCOLN-LITTLE RIVER-MARION- MCCURTAIN-MILLER-MORRIS-NACOGDOCHES-NATCHITOCHES-NEVADA-OUACHITA- PANOLA-RED RIVER LA-RED RIVER TX-RUSK-SABINE LA-SABINE TX- SAN AUGUSTINE-SEVIER-SHELBY-SMITH-TITUS-UNION AR-UNION LA-UPSHUR- WEBSTER-WINN-WOOD- 1200 PM CDT MON AUG 15 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST...AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER ALL OF THE FOUR STATE REGION. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD BE A BIT MORE NUMEROUS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AS SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES CONTINUE TO TRAVERSE NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA...ATOP A STATIONARY FRONT IN PLACE. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY AND MOVE NORTH INTO EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA IN RESPONSE TO THE SEABREEZE OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...STORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE... PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING...POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THESE STORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO TAPER OFF THIS EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...ALTHOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD PERSIST OVERNIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY...AS A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND ASSOCIATED FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRIFTS SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BECOME MORE ISOLATED WEDNESDAY...CONTINUING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. 44
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1212 PM CDT MON AUG 15 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0515 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 SW LONGVIEW 32.49N 94.80W
08/14/2005 GREGG TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
ROOFS DAMAGED BY WIND AT BOBO LUMBER YARD...AND SOME
NEARBY TREES DOWNED ON POWER LINES...ON HWY 31
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17The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:59 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck an oil storage facility in Elm Grove. Firefighters were called out to spray foam and put out the blaze. The bolt leveled a fiberglass tank which was holding salt water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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