Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1986, 2:10 PM CDT for Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1986, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1986, 2:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Etowah 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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, Jul 22, 1:29 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 130 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1986 SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTH-CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...POSSIBLE HAIL AND PLENTY OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 1:30 PM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE... ...ALONG THE BLOUNT/ST CLAIR COUNTY 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ONEONTA. ...ALONG THE EAST EDGE OF CULLMAN IN CULLMAN COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHEAST OF ONEONTA INDICATES HAIL. IT WAS PRACTICALLY STATIONARY. HOWEVER...IT MAY DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTH CROSSING INTERSTATE 59 BETWEEN SPRINGVILLE AND ASHVILLE...AND TOWARD ST CLAIR SPRINGS.
Local storm report, Jul 22, 1:53 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 150 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1986 ...AT 1:49 PM, THE ETOWAH COUNTY EMA OFFICE AT GADSDEN REPORTED SMALL HAIL...PEA SIZE...BETWEEN GADSDEN AND ATTALLA...IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:08 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 210 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1986 VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA CONTINUE OVER EAST BLOUNT...NORTH ST CLAIR AND SOUTH ETOWAH COUNTY. THERE MAY BE SOME HAIL IN THE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY WILL ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...LOTS OF LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE STRONG WINDS. AT 2:10 PM...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF GADSDDN AND ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTHWEST OF ONEONTA. THEY WERE ALMOST STATIONARY.
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:09 PM CDT, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 210 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 1986 VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA CONTINUE OVER EAST BLOUNT...NORTH ST CLAIR AND SOUTH ETOWAH COUNTY. THERE MAY BE SOME HAIL IN THE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY WILL ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...LOTS OF LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE STRONG WINDS. AT 2:10 PM...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IMMEDIATELY WEST OF GADSDDN AND ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTHWEST OF ONEONTA. THEY WERE ALMOST STATIONARY.
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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.