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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lake Charles, LA
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.
- 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
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.