Saturday, February 14, 2009

Special Weather Statement 19:27:47.9598

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER
University Operations Center (UOC)

This is an automatically generated special information alert from the UT Tyler Office of Emergency Management:

WWUS84 KSHV 150130
SPSSHV

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
728 PM CST SAT FEB 14 2009

TXZ136-150-150215-
RUSK-SMITH-
728 PM CST SAT FEB 14 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST...FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...
SMITH AND RUSK...

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
ARP...NEW LONDON AND OVERTON...

AT 728 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN WHITEHOUSE AND ARP...OR 6 MILES EAST OF
WHITEHOUSE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT
MAINLY SMALLER COMMUNITIES JUST NORTH OF ARP...AS WELL AS POSSIBLY
NEW LONDON...DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.

HAIL SMALLER THAN THREE QUARTER OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM. PEA SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND HAS ALREADY BEEN
REPORTED JUST WEST OF WHITEHOUSE WITH THIS STORM. SHOULD THIS STORM
INTENSIFY FURTHER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE NEEDED.

$$

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P. Low/UOC
END OF ALERT

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