Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1986, 10:40 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1986, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1986, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, TX, Newton County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1391 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WRUS2 KBPT 040340 FFWBPT TXC241-351-040600- BULLETIN-IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 1040 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 100 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST TEXAS... CENTRAL JASPER.. CENTRAL NEWTON. AT 1025 PM CDT, WEATHER RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED OUT OF TYLER COUNTY NORTHEAST OF SPURGER ACROSS JASPER COUNTY NORTH OF KIRBYVILLE AND EASTWARD TO BON WEIR IN NEWTON COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STATIONARY. THE JASPER COUNTY SHERRIF REPORTED WATER STANDING ON HIGHWAY 96 AT THE BOTTOM OF HILLS AND STREAMS WERE BECOMING SWIFT. ALL PERSONS LIVING NEAR STREAMS AND LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT CROSS LOW WATER CROSSINGS NOR ANY SWIFT OR SWOLLEN STREAMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WAS CONTINUING NEAR BON WEIR AND RAINS WILL CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS ACROSS THE WARNED AREAS. CAMPERS, HUNTERS AND FISHERMEN NEAR WHERE CREEKS AND STREAMS ENTER LAKES STEINHAGEN AND RAYBURN AND THE SABINE RIVER SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY AS FLASH FLOODS MAY PRODUCE WALLS OF WATER COMING DOWN THESE STREAMS. REMEMBER, A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED OR INDICATED BY RADAR. TAKE HEED NOW. STAY TUNED TO PORT ARTHURS WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS ON THESE HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING. DCG
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 640 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN APPROCHING ALEXANDRIA.... AT 630PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN RAPIDES PARISH OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA FROM JUST NORTH OF GLENMORA TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING NORTH AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. DUE TO THIS SLOW MOVEMENT LOCAL FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN RAPIDES PARISH BETWEEN THE PRESENT TIME AND 730PM OTHERWISE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AROUND LEESVILLE AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SLOWLY DECREASING FROM EUNICE TO LAFAYETTE. LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DECREASING FROM NEAR BATON ROUGE ACROSS MORGAN CITY. ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS BETWEEN BEAUMONT AND JSPER. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 740 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 730PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY RAIN OVER LA SALLE PARISH OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA FROM CATAHOULA LAKE TO JENA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND LOCAL FLOODING IN LA SALLE PARISH BETWEEN THE PRESENT TIME AND 830PM. OTHERWISE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DECREASING AROUND ALEXANDRIA. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SLOWLY DECREASING FROM FROM THE COAST SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE EXTENDING INLAND TO NEAR EUNICE. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD INCREASED A LITTLE SOUTHEAST OF DERIDDER LOUISIANA AND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS BETWEEN BEAUMONT AND JASPER. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 9:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 930 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 1986 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NEWTON COUNTY... AT 920 PM CDT, WEATHER RADAR SHOWED CLUSTER A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN NEWTON COUNTY FROM THE TOWN OF NEWTON TO BON WEIR AND INTO LOUSIANA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS AROUND BON WEIR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS TYLER COUNTY INTO JASPER COUNTY MOVING NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS IN NEWTON COUNTY WERE STATIONARY AND MAY PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND STREAMS. CAMPERS, FISHERMEN AND HUNTERS ALONG THE SABINE RIVER EAST OF NEWTON TO SOUTH OF BON WEIR SHOULD BE VERY ALERT FOR FLASH FLOODS ON SMALL CREEKS AND ACROSS LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO NOT CROSS SWIFT AND SWOLLEN STREAMS FOR ANY REASON. STAY TUNED TO PORT ARTHURS WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS DUE TO THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AROUND BON WEIR. DCG
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.