Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lake Charles, LA
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.
- 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
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
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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.