Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 1986, 4:40 PM CST for Bowie County, Texas; McCurtain County, Oklahoma; Little River County, Arkansas. It was in force for 65 min. 5 reports 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
- Feb 5, 1986, 4:40 PM CST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 1986, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Little River County, AR, McCurtain County, OK, Bowie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 5:00 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Bowie, TX | |
| Feb 5, 5:20 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Bowie, TX | |
| Feb 5, 5:40 PM CST | Hail 1 | Mccurtain, OK | |
| Feb 5, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Bowie, TX | |
| Feb 5, 5:50 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Bowie, 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHV 052239 TORSHV TXC037-OKC089-ARC081-052345- BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 440 PM CST WED FEB 5 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES/PARISHES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHWEST BOWIE SOOTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EXTREME SOUTHEAST MCCURTAIN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...LITTLE RIVER AT 440 PM CST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR HARTS BLUFF TEXAS JUST NORTH OF THE SULPHUR RIVER...OR 22 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF DEKALB...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. . PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A PEMRMANENT STRUCTURE ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR SMALL ROOM. GET UNDER A PIECE OF HEAVY FURNITURE OR COVER YOURSELF WITH SOMETHING TO PROTECT AGAINST FLYING OR FALLING DEBRIS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bowie | 75 min |
| Feb 5, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 75 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1986Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1986Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes in 1986
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.