Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 24, 1986, 5:20 PM CST for Hardin County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 1986, 5:20 PM CST (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 25, 1986, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Nov 24, 11:37 AM CST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1135 AM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT AND INCLUDES SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FOR TODAY... AT 1125 AM...WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP MIXED IN A LARGE MASS OF RAIN THAT COVERS MOST OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL...AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE AND IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM NORTH OF KOUNTZE TO WEST OF PORT ARTHUR. THE MASS OF RAIN EXTENDED EAST OF A LUFKIN...HOUSTON...FREEPORT LINE AND INTO THE GULF TO 110 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON. IT <WAS SHOWN AS FAR EAST AS VERMILION BAY...BATON ROUGE LINE. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 12:42 PM CST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1240 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT AND INCLUDES SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FOR TODAY... AT 1225 PM...WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP MIXED IN A LARGE MASS OF RAIN THAT COVERS MOST OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND MOST OF SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL...AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM ALONG THE COAST WEST OF CAMERON TO NORTH OF VINTON AND 95 MILES IN THE GULF SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CHARLES. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM WHITE LAKE TO SOUTH OF LAFAYETTE AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEESVILLE ALONG THE SABINE RIVER. THE LARGE MASS OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN WAS TO THE EAST OF A NORTHERN TOLEDO BEND...GALVESTON LINE. THE MASS EXTENDED ACROSS THE GULF FROM FREEPORT TO SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE TO 120 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 1:35 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 140 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT AND INCLUDES SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FOR TODAY... AT 125 PM...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHWON JUST NORTHEAST OF CROWLEY...10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONROE TEXAS...AND 70 TO 125 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CHARLES IN THE GULF. A LARGE MASS OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN WAS TO THE EAST OF CENTRAL TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR...SOUTHERN RAYBURN RESERVOIR... BEAUMONT LINE. ANOTHER MASS OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM HOUSTON TO OVER FREEPORT AND GALVESTON INTO THE GULF TO 120 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS. THE MASS OVER LAND COVERED EXTERME SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND ALL OF SOUTHWEST... CENTRAL...AND A GOOD PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTH AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 2:32 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT AND INCLUDES SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FOR TODAY... AT 225 PM...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER WHITE LAKE AND 85 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE CHARLES IN THE GULF. OTHERWISE A LARGE MASS OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS...AND COVERED ALL OF SOUTHWEST ...CENTRAL ...AND A GOOD PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND EXTENDED INTO THE GULF TO 90 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON AND 110 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON AND TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE. MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN WAS SHOWN ALON9G THE UPPER TEXAS COASTAL PLAINS IN THE FREEPORT...HOUSTON...LIBERTY...AND PORT ARTHUR AREAS. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTH AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 3:38 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 335 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT AND INCLUDES SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA FOR TODAY... AT 325 PM...WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF OPELOUSAS TO LAFAYETTE TO OFFSHORE SOUTH OF VERMILION BAY THEN WEST JUST OFFSHORE TO SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE THEN SOUTHWEST TO 90 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON. IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS STRONG ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONROE AND JUST NORTHWEST OF KATY. OTHERWISE A WIDESPREAD MASS OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN CONTINUED TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD AND EXTENDED EAST OF A FREEPORT ...KATY...LUFKIN...NORTHERN TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR LINE. THIS AREA EXTENDED INTO THE GULF TO 125 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS AND AS FAR EAST AS THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY AND TO WELL EAST OF BATON ROUGE. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTH AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 4:51 PM CST, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 440 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY... AT 430 PM...A BAND OF NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WAS SHOWN FROM JUST SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF BATON ROUGE ACROSS VERMILION BAY INTO THE GULF TO BEYOND 100 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON LOUISIANA. IN THIS BAND WAS A LARGE STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING VERMILION BAY AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A FEW HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED IN EAST TEXAS JUST WEST OF LUFKIN AND NEAR HUNTSVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUED TO COVER MOST OF CENTRAL... SOUTH CENTRAL...AND WEST LOUISIANA...ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
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.