Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1986, 5:57 PM CDT for Howard County, Sevier County, Arkansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1986, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Howard County, AR, Sevier County, AR
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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 682 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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 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
Local storm report, Jun 27, 12:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 355PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1986 ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS...MAY PRODUCE LOCAL HIGH WIND GUSTS ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FALL. AT 355 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA FROM NORTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO ARKANAS TO SOUTHEAST OF MURFREESBORO. ALSO...FROM 15 MILES WEST OF TEXARKANA TO SOUTH OF PARIS TEXAS. VERY STONG STORMS NEAR MURFREESBORO AND NEAR NEW BOSTON AND DEKALB TEXAS WEST OF TEXARKANA...THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HIGH WINDS... EXCEEDING 50 MPH ALONG WITH RAINFALL EXCEEDING TWO INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND MAY PRODUCE FLOODING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST SOUTHEAST. NUMEROUS SHOWERS ALONG WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL STILL OCCURRING OVER NORTHERN COLUMBIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA COUNTIES IN SOUTHCENTRAL ARKANSAS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COLUMBIA AND NEVADA COUNTIES THROUGH 530 PM CDT. STORM RAINFALL TOTALS WILL EXCEED FIVE INCHES..FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP..AFFECTING ROADWAYS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE CONTINUED THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND THE ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTH ARKANSAS. OVER THE EASTERN TIER OF COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOME ROADWAYS REMAIN IMPASSABLE IN LOW AREAS DUE TO BAYOU FLOODING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Caddo, De Soto | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | De Soto | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Caddo | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Caddo | 15 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bossier, Webster | 15 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | De Soto | 15 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Panola | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Harrison | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Cass | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie | 15 hr |
| Jun 27, 8:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Lafayette, Miller | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Nevada | 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.