Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1986, 6:10 PM CDT for Greene County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1986, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 2229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1529 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
Local storm report, Jul 30, 3:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 330 PM CDT WED JUL 30 1986 ...AT 310 PM CDT MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT THOMASTON IN MARENGO COUNTY. REPORTED BY DEMOPOLIS STATE POLICE. REPORTS SKET,CHY.
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 3:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 350PM CDT WED JUL 30 1986 VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER SCATTERED AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BY WEATHER RADARS NEAR TROY.. JUST SOUTH OF UNION SPRINGS..ON THE CHILTON-COOSA LINE EAST OF CLANTON.. AND OVER WESTERN WILCOX COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT ABOUT 15 MPH. BOATERS ON LAKE MITCHELL SHOULD BE ALERT... NUMEROUS TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN IN THE WESTERN PART OF LEE COUNTY AROUND 215PM CDT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..SOME HAIL..VERY INTENSE AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS GUSTY SURFACE WINDS MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE STORMS CAN AND MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY.
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:23 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 520PM CDT WED JUL 30 1986 VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SCATTERED AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BY WEATHER RADARS NORTH OF PRATTVILLE..BETWEEN ENTERPRISE AND OPP IN COFFEE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH. AT 2 35PM CDT POWER LINES WERE DOWNED NEAR HIGHWAY 80 EAST AND COUNTY ROAD 89 IN EASTERN MACON COUNTY. REPORT FROM LEE COUNTY EMA. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..SOME HAIL..VERY INTENSE AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS GUSTY SURFACE WINDS MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR $RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE STORMS CAN AND MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 70 min |
| Jul 30, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 40 min |
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.