Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 1986, 9:00 PM CST for Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 1986, 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 1986, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lake Charles, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, TX, Tyler 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBPT 250304 SVRBPT TXC199-457-240400- BULLETIN-IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 900 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF TEXAS... HARDIN AND TYLER UNTIL 10PM CST. RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF HARDIN COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF VOTAW. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT OVER 40 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS PROBABALY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWESTERN TYLER COUNTY NEAR WILDWOOD AND VILLAGE MILLS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR THIS STORM AND SEEK COVER IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, 3:38 PM CST, 5 hours 22 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, 4 hours 9 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.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 5:44 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 540 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY... AT 530 PM...A BAND OF NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WAS SHOWN FROM NEAR LAFAYETTE TO NORTHEAST OF MORGAN CITY TO JUST EAST OF VERMILION BAY INTO THE GULF BEYOND 125 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON LOUISIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A FEW HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EAST TEXAS OVER THE NORTH PART OF LIVINGSTON LAKE AND JUST NORTHWEST OF FREEPORT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS COVERED LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM BATON ROUGE AND ALEXANDRIA TO LUFKIN AND HOUSTON SOUTH INTO THE GULF BEYOND 125 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS AND CAMERON.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 6:45 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 640 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY... AT 630 PM...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WAS SHOWN OVER THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY SOUTH INTO THE GULF 25 MILES AND WELL IN THE GULF 90 TO 125 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON LOUISIANA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR HOUSTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS COVERED MOST OF LOUISIANA EXCEPT THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST AND NORTH PARTS OF THE STATE INTO EAST TEXAS FROM LUFKIN TO HOUSTON AND FREEPORT. RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS EXTENDED aINTO THE GULF UP TO 125 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS AND CAMERON.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 7:49 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 745 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY... AT 730 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS INCREASED IN SOUTH EAST TEXAS FROM WEST OF LAKE CHARLES TO NEAR BEAUMONT AND HOUSTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIDELY SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM MORGAN CITY ACROSS THE ATCHAFALAYA BAY TO WELL IN THE GULF 60 TO 100 MILES SOUTH OF CAMERON AND WHITE LAKE LOUISIANA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS COVERED ALL OF LOUISIANA EXCEPT THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PART AND NORTH PART OF THE STATE AND ALL OF EAST TEXAS FROM NORTH OF THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO LUFKIN...HOUSTON...AND FREEPORT INTO THE GULF UP TO 125 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS AND CAMERON.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 8:54 PM CST, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 845 PM CST MON NOV 24 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY... AT 830 PM...BANDS OF STONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE SHOWN IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM NORTH OF LIBERTY TO NEAR AND SOUTH OF HOUSTON AND FROM ONSHORE SABINE PASS TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GALVESTON. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WIDESPREAD RAIN WITH THUNDERSTORMS MIXED IN THE RAIN COVERED MOST OF LOUISIANA EXCEPT NORTH PART OF THE STATE AND EAST TEXAS FROM NORTH OF THE TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR TO NEAR AND WELL WEST OF HOUSTON AND FREEPORT. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN THE GULF FROM JUST EAST OF GALVESTON TO 100 MILES SOUTH OF SABINE PASS...CAMERON...AND WHITE LAKE.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.