Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1986, 5:32 PM CST for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1986, 5:32 PM CST (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1986, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, MS
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1190 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 082336 SVRMOB MSC041-090000- BULLETIN..IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 532 PM CST TUE APR 8 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...GREENE AT 530 PM CST...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST GREENE COUNTY OF MISSISSIPPI. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVI0NG TO THE SOUTHEAST AT NEARLY 55 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
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, Apr 8, 4:41 PM CST, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CST TUE APR 8 1986 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NBR 81 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR ESCAMBIA..SANTA ROSA..AND OKALOOSA COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA. AT 430 PM CST...A LARGE POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ON THE MISSISSIPPI ALABAMA BORDER ABOUT 70 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD 55 TO 60 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED HAIL EARLIER IN ITS HISTORY..WHILE IN MISSISSIPPI. NO OTHER PRECIPITATION WAS INDICATED BY RADAR NEAR NORTHWEST FLORIDA HOWEVER..RESIDENTS IN THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING OR DETERIORATING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 70 min |
| Apr 8, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.