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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1229 PM CST Fri Mar 7 2025

...Public Information Statement...

…Spring Severe Weather Awareness Week Continues…

With the peak of the 2025 severe weather season fast approaching, 
the National Weather Service has designated the week of March 2nd 
through March 8th as Spring Severe Weather Awareness Week. This is a 
safety campaign designed to help residents in the states of 
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma prepare for the spring 
severe weather season. During this week, the National Weather 
Service will review the most important aspects of severe weather, 
and highlight safety rules. A special public information statement 
will be issued each day, along with various social media posts.

Today’s topic is….Watches, Warnings, and Reception.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches and Tornado Watches are issued by the 
Storm Prediction Center, when atmospheric conditions are favorable 
for the development of severe weather or tornadoes. Severe 
Thunderstorm Warnings and Tornado Warnings are issued by your 
Shreveport National Weather Service Forecast Office, when severe 
thunderstorms or tornadoes are imminent, either as indicated by 
Doppler radar, or when observed and reported by reliable sources 
such as Skywarn spotters.

To protect yourself and your property from severe thunderstorms, it 
is important to stay abreast of the latest weather conditions. You 
can receive your Watches and Warnings through NOAA All Hazards 
Weather Radio from the National Weather Service, as well as 
monitoring television, radio, and the internet, including our social 
media pages, and the homepage of the National Weather Service.
www.weather.gov/shv

Our local National Weather Service Office is interested in your 
severe weather reports. We want you to let us known anytime you 
observe tornadoes, large hail, strong winds, flash flooding, or any 
weather-related damage.

The Shreveport office covers 21 counties in East Texas, 1 county in 
Southeast Oklahoma, 9 counties in Southwest Arkansas, and 17 
parishes in North and Central Louisiana. You can report severe 
weather for these counties and parishes in a number of ways.

You can submit a storm report on the homepage of the National 
Weather Service office in Shreveport. www.weather.gov/shv

Report via our Facebook and X pages at…NWS Shreveport.

Call the National Weather Service Office at 8 0 0…9 2 2…1 3 8 6.

Call your county or parish sheriff’s office and relay your report to 
them.

We will need to know the type of severe weather observed, the 
location, and the time it occurred.

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