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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 5, 1986Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT for Jasper County, Tyler County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jasper 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 1986-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1932 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1986-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1932 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBPT 052145
TORBPT
TXC457-241-052245-

BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
445 PM CDT THU JUN 5 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST
TEXAS...

 ..NORTHERN TYLER.. NORTHERN JASPER..

AT 435 PM CDT, WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHWESTERN
TYLER COUNTY NEAR CHESTER MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  A HALF
HOUR AGO, A DPS TROOPER SPOTTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR ONALASKA IN
POLK COUNTY MOVING EAST, FROM THIS SAME STORM.

THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARDS COLMESNIL, STEINHAGEN LAKE, AND JASPER. 
PERSONS IN THESE LOCATIONS OR OTHERWISE IN THE PATH OF THIS POSSIBLE
TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SAFTY IMMEDIATELY.

DCG

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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.