Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1986, 4:50 PM CDT for Catahoula Parish, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1986, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1986, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1972 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 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 KBTR 242150 SVRBTR LAC025-029-242250- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 450 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 550 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...CATAHOULA AND CONCORDIA. AT 440 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CATAHOULA PARISH AND OVER WESTER#N CONCORDIA PARISH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER CATAHOULA AND CONCORDIA PARISHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, May 24, 2:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 215 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...INCLUDING THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR DONALDSONVILLE AND ST. FRANCIS- VILLE. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY NORTH. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WIND.. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THEY PASS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, May 24, 3:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 320 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...INCLUDING THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM DONALDSONVILLE TO GONZALES.. BATON ROUGE TO WOODVILLE MISSISSIPPI..AND FROM OPELOUSAS TO JONESVILLE. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT DONALDSONVILLE DURING THE PAST HOUR. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WIND.. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS THEY PASS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia | 60 min |
| May 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Catahoula | 60 min |
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.