Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Lake Charles, LA
NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 5, 1986, 7:20 PM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Texas. It was in force for 70 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 1986, 7:20 PM CST (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 1986, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 70 min
- 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 7:22 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Jasper, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 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
- 1153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 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, Feb 5, 6:10 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX 610 PM CST WED FEB 5 1986 ...TRAVELERS ADVISORY FOR TRI-PLEX THIS EVENING... DENSE SEA FOG WAS MOVING INTO SABINE PASS AROUND 545 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE FOG WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHWARD INTO PORT ARTHUR AND POSSIBLY BEAUMONT AND ORANGE AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES. THE VISIBILITY WILL DIMINISH TO NEAR ZERO AS THE FOG MOVE INLAND CAUSING A HAZARD TO MOTORISTS AND SHIP AND BARGE TRAFFIC IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS WATERWAYS AND TO AIRLINES. AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT THAT IS PUSHING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS TOWARD THE TRI-PLEX WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA AROUND MIDNIGHT PUSHING THE FOG BACK TO SEA. DCG
Local storm report, Feb 5, 7:00 PM CST, 20 minutes before
ATTN SELS A BPT
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
700PM CST WED FEB 05 1986
345 PM CST 3/4 INCH HAIL IN LUMBERTON TX.
440 PM CST NETWORK OBSERVER REPORTS PEA SIZE HAIL 4 MI NE OF
NACOGDOCHES.
443 PM CST KSFA-TV REPORTS PEA-SIZE HAIL AT STATION IN
NACOGDOCHES.
618 PM CST TYLER COUUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS 1 INCH HAIL, HIGH WINDS
AND VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MI WEST OF WOODVILLE, TX.
620 PM CST TYLER COUNTY SHERRIF SIGHTED TORNADO 5 MI WEST OF
WOODVILLE, TX...GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 7 WEST OF WOODVILLE.
645 PM CST PUBLIC REPORT OF FUNNEL CLOUD OVER WOODVILLE, TX.
645 PM CST F TYLER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS HEN EGG SIZE HAIL 4 MI
EAST OF COLMESNEIL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 65 min |
| Feb 5, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Hardin, Jasper | 50 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.