Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Birmingham, AL

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
138 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 1986

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST ALABAMA
EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON.

AT 135PM CDT...THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM REFORM IN
PICKENS COUNTY, TO WINFIELD AND HACKLEBURG IN MARION COUNTY, THEN
INTO THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE STATE. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH
PICKENS, LAMAR, MARION AND FAYETTE COUNTIES...THEN INTO TUSCALOOSA,
WALKER AND WINSTON COUNTIES BY 2 PM CDT.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS, BRIEF BUT TORRENTIAL RAIN, AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING
WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.

WIND GUSTS TO 48 MPH WERE RECdORDED AT COLUMBUS MS. AND 42 MPH AT
TUPELO MS. AS THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH MISSISSIPPI
SHORTLY AFTER NOON.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
245 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 1986

AT 240 PM CDT
WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SHORT INTENSE LINE OF THUNDER
STORMS EXTENDING FROM CENTREVILLE TO NEAR CAMDEN IN WEST CENTRAL
ALABAMA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR AND WILL PASS OVER SELMA VERY SHORTLY.

THESE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAINS AND VERY
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. T,HE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE
REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.