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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Lake Charles, LA

November 24, 1986Hardin County, Tyler County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1986-11-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 00:00Z on 1986-11-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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

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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.