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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 22, 1986Etowah County, Alabama

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1986-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1986-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.