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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 26, 1986Jasper County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1986, 12:20 PM CDT for Jasper County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1986, 12:20 PM CDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1986, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Jasper 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 12:00Z on 1986-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1986-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -153 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
70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 tornado 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 26, 7:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
738 AM CDT THU JUN 26 1986

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST
   AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 725 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE SHOWN FROM SABINE
PASS THROUGH WESTERN CAMERON PARISH TO NEAR ORANGE...AND NORTHEAST OF
HIGH ISLAND.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CENTER
OF HURRICANE BONNIE.

RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF THE AREA SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM SOUTH OF LAKE LIVINGSTON TEXAS TO DE RIDDER TO LAFAYETTE.  THIS
AREA EXTENDED TO 60 TO BEYOND 100 MILES OFFSHORE FROM VERMILION BAY
TO WEST OF FREEPORT TEXAS.

SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN WERE NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM OPELOUSAS
TO LEESVILLE.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 8:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
845 AM CDT THU JUN 26 1986

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST
   AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 830 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE SHOWN FROM SABINE
PASS TO NEAR AND UP TO 40 MILES WEST OF BEAUMONT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CENTER OF HURRICANE BONNIE.

BANDS OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE SHOWN EXTENDING
INTO THE GULF FROM SABINE PASS TO 75 MILES SOUTH OF THE PASS AND OVER
CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA FROM NORTH OF VILLE PLATTE SOUTH
TO JUST WEST OF VERMILION BAY INTO THE GULF BEYOND 100 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF THE BAY.

WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH

CENTRAK LOUISIANA INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA
ACROSS LAFAYETTE WEST TO HOUSTON AND INTO THE GULF UP TO 100 MILES
SOUTH OF GALVESTON TO VERMILION BAY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
945 AM CDT THU JUN 26 1986

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST
   AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 930 AM...A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WAS
LOCATED FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF BEAUMONT TO JUST EAST OF THE CITY TO
SABINE PASS INTO THE GULF UP TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE PASS AND
JUST WEST OF BEAUMONT TO NEAR LIBERTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS EAST AND WEST
OF BEAUMONT WERE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CENTER OF HURRICANE BONNIE.

ANOTHER BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WAS SHOWN FROM JUST
WEST OF LAFAYETTE ACROSS WHITE LAKE INTO THE GULF BEYOND 100 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WHITE LAKE.

A BAND OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS INCREASED FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE
TO ALEXANDRIA.

WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA
AND ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS
FROM ALEXANDRIA TO LAFAYETTE TO DERIDDER AND LAKE CHARLES TO HOUSTON
EXTENDING INTO THE GULF UP TO 100 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON TO WHITE LAKE.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST N15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY CORRECTION TROPICAL STORM
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
945 AM CDT THU JUN 26 1986

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST
   AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 930 AM...A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WAS
LOCATED FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF BEAUMONT TO JUST EAST OF THE CITY TO
SABINE PASS INTO THE GULF UP TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE PASS AND
JUST WEST OF BEAUMONT TO NEAR LIBERTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS EAST AND WEST
OF BEAUMONT WERE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM BONNIE.

ANOTHER BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WAS SHOWN FROM JUST
WEST OF LAFAYETTE ACROSS WHITE LAKE INTO THE GULF BEYOND 100 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WHITE LAKE.

A BAND OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS INCREASED FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE
TO ALEXANDRIA.

WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA
AND ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS
FROM ALEXANDRIA TO LAFAYETTE TO DERIDDER AND LAKE CHARLES TO HOUSTON
EXTENDING INTO THE GULF UP TO 100 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON TO WHIYTE LAKE.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 10:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1045 AM CDT THU JUN 26 1986

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST
   AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 1035 AM...A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED
FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEAUMONT TO NEAR THE CITY AND SABINE PASS
INTO THE COASTAL WATERS 25 MILES OFFSHORE SABINE PASS/GALVESTON/
FREEPORT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE ALSO SHOWN 25 MILES NORTH
WEST OF BEAUMONT.

A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WAS LOCATED FROM NORTH
THROUGH SOUTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA TO JUST WEST OF LAFAYETTE SOUTH TO THE
COAST AND INTO THE GULF UP TO 100 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITE LAKE.

RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS  FROM NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA TO THE COAST SOUTH OF
LAFAYETTE WEST TO JUST NORTH OF LAKE CHARLES TO HOUSTON AND IN THE
GULF UP TO 100 MILES SOUTH OF GALVESTON TO WHITE LAKE.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:41 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1135 AM CDT THU JUN 26 1986

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST
   AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA...

AT 1125 AM...CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED IN
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM THE COASTAL WATERS SOUTHWEST OF SABINE PASS
ACROSS BEAUMONT TO NEAR KIRBYVILLE AND FROM BEAUMONT NORTHWEST TO
MIDWAY BETWEEN LIBERTY AND LIVINGSTON LAKE.

A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN FROM THE EXTREME SOUTHWEST
TIP OF SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR LAFAYETTE AND IN THE GULF FROM 30
MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITE LAKE TO 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITE LAKE.

WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL/
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FROM ALEXANDRIA TO LAFAYETTE
SOUTH TO THE COAST THEN WEST TO FORT POLK AND LUFKIN SOUTH ACRO	SS
LAKE CHARLES AND HOUSTON INTO THE GULF UP TO 75 MILES SOUTH OF
GALVESTON TO WHITE LAKE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lake Charles, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson, Orange6 hr
Jun 26, 8:58 AM CDTTornado WarningLCHJefferson32 min
Jun 26, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHAngelina, Tyler4 hr
Jun 26, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLCHHardin, Jefferson, Orange4 hr

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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.