Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1986, 3:50 PM CST for Cass County, Texas; Miller County, Arkansas. It was in force for 70 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1986, 3:50 PM CST (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1986, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Miller County, AR, Cass County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Cass, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Winn | 70 min |
| Apr 19, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo, Red River | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Winn | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Winn | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita | 80 min |
| Apr 19, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Panola | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Bowie | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Harrison | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 70 min |
| Apr 19, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 80 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.