Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 26, 1986, 12:24 AM CST for Elmore County, Alabama. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 1986, 12:24 AM CST (06:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 1986, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elmore 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 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAAOO KMGM 260624
SVRMGM
ALC051-260730-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
1224 AM CST WED NOV 26 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
..ELMORE
AT 1220 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...WAS LOCATED
5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELMORE ALABAMA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT
40 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER,
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIOWhat 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, Nov 25, 6:25 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 615 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES...BUT THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE... AT 615 PM CST RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE LOCATED...OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY...AND FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF BREWTON TO 10 MILES WEST OF EVERGREEN. THESE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS ]WARRANT.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 6:26 PM CST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 625 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES...BUT THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE... AT 625 PM CST RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE LOCATED...OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY...AND FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF BREWTON TO 10 MILES WEST OF EVERGREEN. THESE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS `WARRANT.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 6:35 PM CST, 5 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 640 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. AT 630 PM CST...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... THE EXTREME WESTERN END OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND INTO THE GULF TO MORE THAN 225 MILES SOUTH OF THE ALABAMA COASTLINnE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 7:37 PM CST, 4 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 740 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. AT 730 PM CST...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... THE EXTREME WESTERN END OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND INTO THE GULF TO MORE THAN 225 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 8:43 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 840 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA...IT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 830 PM CST...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER ALL OF SOUTH ALABAMA...PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... THE WESTERN END OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND INTO THE GULF TO MORE THAN 225 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 11:35 PM CST, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1140 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 AT 1130 PM CST...A LINE-LIKE BAND OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM CENTRAL ALABAMA SOUTHWARD TO PENSACOLA AND INTO THE GULF FOR 50 MILES. THE BAND OF STORMS WAS MOVING EASTWARD THROUGH THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AT NEAR 20 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND BRIEFLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN ACCOMPANY THIS SYSTEM. SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN SURROUNDED THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AND STRETCHED FROM MONTGOMERY ALABAMA SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE EXTREME WESTERN END OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND INTO THE GULF...WHERE COVERAGE WAS HIGHER...TO 200 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. INDIVIDUAL MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AND LIGHT RAIN WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour, Dale | 60 min |
| Nov 25, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 60 min |
| Nov 26, 12:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 59 min |
| Nov 26, 12:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 57 min |
| Nov 26, 1:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 58 min |
| Nov 26, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee | 65 min |
| Nov 26, 2:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dale | 67 min |
| Nov 26, 2:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Dale | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.