Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 1986, 1:51 PM CST for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 1986, 1:51 PM CST (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 1986, 2:25 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Sumter, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 KMEI 121951 TORMEI MSC099-ALC119-122045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 151 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...NESHOBA EXTREME WEST ALABAMA...SUMTER AT 145 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF PHILADELPHIA TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF UNION MISSISSIPPI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. AT 145 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAF DEKALB MISSISSIPPI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM THAT ALREuADY HAS A HISTORY OF SEVERE WEATHER. PERSONS IN THE THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 12, 11:56 AM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1154 AM CST WED MAR 12 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 26 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM CST... AT 1150 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF MORTON IN SCOTT COUNTY TO WESTERN SECTIONS OF JONES COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND HAD INCREASED IN AERIAL COVERAGE DURING THE LAST HOUR. THESE STORMS CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS. REPORTS FROM THE CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICE IN JONES COUNTY ESTIMATED WINDS OF AROUND 50 MILES AN HOUR IN WESTERN PORTIONS OF JONES COUNTY. ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS HEAVY RAIN..LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. PERSONS ARE URGED TO STAY TUNE FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 12:01 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1201 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 26 FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN CANCELLED. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 26 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 200 PM. THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THAT AREA GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A KOSCUISKO-JACKSON-MCCOMB LINE. IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI..ATTALA..COPIAH..YAZOO..HOLMES..HINDS.. MADISON AND RANKIN COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH. IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI..AMITE..PIKE..LINCOLN..FRANKLIN..AND WILKINSON COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH. THE TOWNS OF JACKSON AND MCCOMB ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH.
Special weather statement, Mar 12, 12:43 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
1239 AM CST WED MAR 12 1986
...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 2 PM CST
THIS
AFTERNOON...
AT 1228 AM CST...TUPELO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING
A RATHER LARGE AREA OF WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED RAINSHOWERS
OVER PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE AND EXTREME NORTHEAST
ARKANSAS AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI EXCEPT FOR THE EXTREME NORTHEAST
SECTION OF THE STATE.
HEAVIEST CONCENTRATIONS OF RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHERN ALCORN
COUNTY EXTENDING TO THE SOUTHWEST TO ENID RESEVOIR THEN EXTENDING
FURTHER SOUTH TSOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL
MISSISSIPPI.
MOVEMENT OF 1THE RAIN WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WITH THE
RAINSHOWERS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.Special weather statement, Mar 12, 12:44 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
1239 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986
...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 2 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON...
AT 1228 AM CST...TUPELO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING
A RATHER LARGE AREA OF WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED RAINSHOWERS
OVER PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE AND EXTREME NORTHEAST
ARKANSAS AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI EXCEPT FOR THE EXTREME NORTHEAST
SECTION OF THE STATE.
HEAVIEST CONCENTRATIONS OF RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHERN ALCORN
COUNTY EXTENDING TO THE SOUTHWEST TO ENID RESEVOIR THEN EXTENDING
FURTHER SOUTH TSOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL
MISSISSIPPI.3
MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR WITH THE
RAINSHOWERS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.Special weather statement, Mar 12, 1:42 PM CST, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
135 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986
...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 2 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON...
AT 128 PM CST...TUPELO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING A
RATHER LARGE AREA OF WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED RAINSHOWERS
OVER PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE AND EXTREME NORTHWEST
ALABAMA AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI.
A VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI WITH
VISUAL SIGHTINGS OF A TORNADO MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES
AN HOUR. OTHER LESS SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN THE
TUPELO MISSISSIPPI VICINITY THIS HOUR.
THE RAIN WAS MOVING TO hTHE EAST AT 10 MILES PER HOUR WITH THE
THUNDERSHOWER ACTIVITY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES PER HOUR.Special weather statement, Mar 12, 1:47 PM CST, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 135 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST MISSISSIPPI TILL 2 PM AND NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TIL 9PM... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE MERIDIAN AREA SEVERAL TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS. OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM MERIDIAN SOUTHWESTWARD TO COLUMBIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND SHOULD BE NEARING THE COLUMBUS AREA BY 3PM. AT 135 PM...THE JACKSON RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE REST OF MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT CONTINUES NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.t
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.