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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 9, 1986Angelina County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1986, 11:10 AM CDT for Angelina County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1986, 11:10 AM CDT (16:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1986, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Angelina 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 312 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 9, 9:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
940 AM CDT MON JUN 9 1986

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

AT 930 AM...CLUSTERS OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER
EAST LOUISIANA INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM BATON ROUGE SOUTH ACROSS THE
ATCHAFALAYA BAY INTO THE GULF UP TO 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE BAY...
JUST SOUTH OF NATCHITOCHES...AND FROM NEAR LUFKIN SOUTH TO JUST EAST OF
HOUSTON TO JUST NORTHWEST OF GALVESTON.

SCATTERED MOSTLY SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SHOWN FROM
LAFAYETTE ACROSS LAKE CHARLES TO BEAUMONT SOUTH INTO THE GULF UP TO 75
MILES SOUTH OF CAMERO|N.

APPARENT HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA NORTH
WEST OF MANSFIELD WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT NOTED.

THE THUNDERSTORMS IN LOUISIANA AND TEXAS WERE MOVING NORTH NEAR 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 10:47 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1040 AM CDT MON JUN 9 1986

THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
HOWEVER...WITH SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP FOR THE REST OF TODAY...THIS MAY NECESSIATE REISSUING THE FLASH
FLOOD WATCH FOR WESTERN LOUISIANA LATER TODAY.

AT 1030 AM...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND NUMEROUS SHOWERS WERE
SHOWN OVER LOUISIANA AND EAST TEXAS FROM NEAR BATON ROUGE TO LAFAYETTE
TO WHITE LAKE...ALL OF WEST LOUISIANA AND EAST TEXAS FROM LAKE CHARLES
TO BEAUMONT TO HOUSTON NORTH ACROSS LUFKIN AND RAYBURN LAKE TO TOLEDO
BEND RESERVOIR...IN THE GULF FROM NEAR CAMERON TO 40 TO 100 MILES SOUTH
AND SOUTHWEST OF VERMILION AND ATCHAFALAYA BAYS...NORTHWEST OF MANSFIELD
LOUISIANA TO NEAR WINNFIELD.

THESE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH OR NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPECIAL STATEMEN	T UNTIL THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFY

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.