Non-severe thunderstorms resulted in a lightning stike in DeSoto Parish during the morning of April 17th resulting in a fire.
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Non-severe thunderstorms resulted in a lightning stike in DeSoto Parish during the morning of April 17th resulting in a fire.
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 17, 3:06 AM CST, 5 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 406 AM CDT TUE APR 17 2007 .DISCUSSION... WATER VAPORY IMAGERY SHOWS DIRTY UPPER-LEVEL RIDGING BEGINNING TO MOVE EAST OF THE FOUR-STATE AREA...COURTESY OF NUDGING BY A CLOSED UPPER LOW STRADDLING THE AZ/NM BORDER. LATEST MODEL RUNS SHOW THIS SYSTEM HAS SLOWED JUST A TAD OVER THE LATEST 24 HRS...BUT IT IS STILL ON TRACK TO MOVE THROUGH THE OK-ARKLATEX OVERNIGHT. SFC LOW IS PROGGED TO TRACK RIGHT THROUGH OUR NORTHERN ZONES...COINCIDENT W/THE LEFT FRONT QUAD OF THE UPPER JET...AND WE/LL KEEP HIGHEST POPS THERE. WHETHER ANY CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS BECOMES SEVERE IS IN QUESTION. CAPES AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM LOOK MARGINAL...500-1000J/KG...W/WEAK 0-6KM SHEAR...AND MID-LEVEL WINDS OF ONLY AROUND 35 KTS. LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE COULD BE A LITTLE HIGHER AS WELL...AND WILL DEPEND ON AMT OF GULF RECOVERY OVER THE NEXT 12-18 HRS. SOUNDING ANALYSIS SHOWS BIGGEST THREAT...IF ANY...WILL BE LARGE HAIL. WE/LL MENTION THIS IN THE WX GRID FOR THIS EVENING...WHEN CAPES ARE MAXIMIZED. OTHERWISE...TROUGH SHOULD EXIT QUICKLY OVERNIGHT TO THE EAST...AND UPPER LEVEL RIDGING RESUMES. TEMPS WILL DIP TO BELOW NORMAL WEDNESDAY IN THE WAKE OF THE TROUGH...BUT REBOUND QUICKLY UNDER THE RIDGE. GUIDANCE HANDLES THIS PRETTY WELL. NEXT CHANCE AT RAIN IN THE EXTENDED BEGINS SUNDAY NIGHT...AS A NEGATIVELY-TILTED TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS...AND THEN A DEEPER TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE FOUR-STATE AREA TUESDAY EVENING. THIS IS TOO FAR OUT FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN MINIMAL CHANCES BEGINNING SUNDAY NIGHT INTO THE REST OF THE EXTENDED. && .AVIATION... STORM SYSTEM NEARING THE PERMIAN BASIN EARLY THIS MORNING IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT AREA TERMINALS THROUGH 18/1200 UTC. SHRA SHOULD SPREAD ACROSS WESTERN TAF SITES BETWEEN 1800 AND 2100 UTC...REACHING IH-49 CORRIDOR CLOSER TO 18/0000 UTC...THEN EAST TOWARD KELD AND KMLU BETWEEN 18/0000 AND 0300 UTC. MOST SHRA AND TSRA SHOULD BE SEEN TONIGHT AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES INTO OUR REGION AND STEEPENS MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES. PRECIPITATION SHOULD END FROM THE WEST BEGINNING AROUND 18/0600 UTC...AND MAY NOT END ACROSS EASTERN AREAS UNTIL SOMETIME WEDNESDAY MORNING. OTHERWISE...TAFS SHOULD START OUT IN VFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES THIS MORNING WITH LOWERING FLIGHT CATEGORIES EXPECTED THEREAFTER. A DROP INTO MVFR TERRITORY /POSSIBLY LOWER/ IS POSSIBLE...WITH CIGS BKN-OVC040 DURING THE PEAK OF THE EVENT TONIGHT. /21/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 78 54 73 53 / 10 90 10 0 MLU 78 55 69 50 / 10 100 10 0 DEQ 72 52 69 47 / 50 90 10 0 TXK 75 54 70 52 / 50 90 10 0 ELD 79 53 69 49 / 10 100 10 0 TYR 73 55 70 54 / 50 60 10 0 GGG 75 54 71 52 / 50 60 10 0 LFK 75 55 74 54 / 20 60 10 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 21/44
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 600 AM CDT TUE APR 17 2007 ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-171700- 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- 600 AM CDT TUE APR 17 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE FOUR STATE AREA TODAY...AND MOVE THROUGH THE REGION OVERNIGHT. THIS WILL RESULT IN EXCELLENT CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME MARGINALLY SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. IN ADDITION...ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. 44
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:26 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike along Hwy 84 near Logansport, Louisiana hit a storage tank owned by British Petroleum on the Southern Natural Gas Road. The fiberglass tank exploded and the local fire department was called in to extinguish the fire.
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