Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 1986, 5:02 PM CST for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 1986, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 1986, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cullman 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 941 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 122301 TORBHM ALC043-130000- BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 502 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 6 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN ALABAMA...CULLMAN LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY CONTAINING A TORNADO WERE MOVING TOWARD CULLMAN COUNTY. ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR WALKER COUNTY UNTIL 6 PM CST. A TORNADO WARNING ALSO CONTINUES UNTIL 5:15 FOR LAMAR...PICKENS FAYETTE...WINSTON AND MARION COUNTIES AND FOR TUSCALOOSA COUNTY UNTIL 5:30 PM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 1:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Pickens | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 3:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion | 67 min |
| Mar 12, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 40 min |
| Mar 12, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Pickens | 40 min |
| Mar 12, 3:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 64 min |
| Mar 12, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Pickens | 63 min |
| Mar 12, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 5:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Pickens | 65 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.