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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA

June 16, 1986Orange County, Texas

NWS Lake Charles, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1986, 11:10 AM CDT for Orange County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1986, 11:10 AM CDT (16:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1986, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Lake Charles, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Orange 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 1986-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1830 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 1986-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
1830 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBPT 161610
TORBPT
TXC361-161700-

BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORT ARTHUR TX
1110 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 1200 NOON FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST
TEXAS...

 ..ORANGE..

AT 1106 AM CDT, WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER THE
NORTHEAST CORNER OF LAKE SABINE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

THE TORNADO% WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE CITIES OF ORANGE AND DEWEYVILLE. 
PERSONS IN THESE CITIES AND OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW.

BOATERS ON LAKE SABINE HEAD TO SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY.

DCG

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 16, 8:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
840 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

AT 825 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING
OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM NEAR ORANGE TEXAS...JUST SOUTH OF LAKE
CHARLES...AND THE COAST SOUTH OF NEW IBERIA SOUTH ACROSS MOST OF
CAMERON AND VERMILION PARISHES INTO THE GULF TO BEYOND 100 MILES
OFFSHORE.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CALCASIEU PARISH BY 845 AM THIS
MORNING.  STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THE
THUNDERSTORMS.

BOATERS ON AREA LAKES AND IN THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY ROUGH SEAS.

RADAR ALSO SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS IN EAST TEXAS BETWEEN RAYBURN LAKE
AND TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR.

LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS SHOWN.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 9:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
935 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

AT 925 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM A DEQUINCY...JENNINGS...NEW IBERIA LINE
SOUTH ACROSS MUCH OF CALCASIEU...CAMERON...AND VERMILION PARISHES
AND INTO THE GULF TO 75 MILES OFFSHORE.

GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING WILL ACCOMPANY THE
THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

BOATERS ON AREA LAKES AND IN THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY ROUGH SEAS.

RADAR ALSO SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS IN EAST TEXAS BETWEEN RAYBURN LAKE
AND TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 10:41 AM CDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1035 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

AT 1025 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING
OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FROM KIRBYVILLE TEXAS
...DERIDDER...OAKDALE...AND CROWLEY SOUTH INTO THE COASTAL WATERS FROM
HIGH ISLAND TEXAS TO CAMERON TO WHITE LAKE.

GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL STREET FLOODING WILL ACCOMPANY SOME
OF THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AS THEY MOVE
NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

BOATERS ON AREA LAKES AND IN THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COASTAL WATERS
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY ROUGH SEAS NEAR THE
THUNDERSTORMS.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM NEAR
LEESVILLE AND JUST EAST OF ALEXANDRIA TO TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR AND
SAM RAYBURN LAKE IN EAST TEXAS.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAXVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING BETWEEN
MORGAN CITY AND BATON ROUGE.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

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.