Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1986, 3:53 PM CDT for Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1986, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1986, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walker County, AL
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
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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.
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, Jun 24, 12:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1240 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1986 ...LINE OF THUNDERSHOWERS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 1240 PM CDT A DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSHOWERS..25 MILES WIDE.. EXTENDED FROM THE GEORGIA BORDER NEAR PIEDMONT THROUGH NORTHERN ST CLAIR..NORTHERN JEFFERSON..EASTERN WALKER..TO MILLPORT NEAR THE THE MISSISSIPPI LINE. THESE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS.. AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSHOWERS SHOULD REACH THE BIRMINGHAM..ANNISTON AND TUSCALOOSA METROPOLITAN AREAS BETWEEN 100 AND 200 PM CDT.
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1240 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1986 ...LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 1240 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS..ABOUT 40 MILES WIDE..EXTENDED FROM HEFLIN NEAR THE GEORGIA BORDER THROUGH CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY.. THROUGH NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA AND NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTY TO THE MISSISSIPPI LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EXTREME WESTERN JEFFERSON..TUSCALOOSA AND NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTIES AND SHOULD REACH THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA BETWEEN 1:45 AND 2:30 PM CDT. ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL BLOU3NT THROUGH CENTRAL CULLMAN INTO WINSTON COUNTY TO NEAR DOUBLE SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL..CORRECTION TIME... 145 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1986 ...LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... AT 140 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS..ABOUT 40 MILES WIDE..EXTENDED FROM HEFLIN NEAR THE GEORGIA BORDER THROUGH CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY.. THROUGH NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA AND NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTY TO THE MISSISSIPPI LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EXTREME WESTERN JEFFERSON..TUSCALOOSA AND NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTIES AND SHOULD REACH THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA BETWEEN 1:45 AND 2:30 PM CDT. ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL BLOUNT THROUGH CENTRAL CULLMAN INTO WINSTON COUNTY TO NEAR DOUBLE SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND @FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 36 min |
| Jun 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.