Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1986, 6:00 PM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1986, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1986, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 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 082359 SVRMOB ALC129-090100- BULLETIN..IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 600 PM CST TUE APR 8 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...WASHINGTON AT 600 PM CST...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF WAYNESBORO MISSISSIPPI. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE OSOUTHEAST AT NEARLY 55 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. PERSONS IN MILLRY AND CHATOM ALABAMA...ALONG THE PATH OF THIS STORM... SHOULD TAKE SHELTER 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, 1 hour 19 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:38 PM CST, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 540 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 530 PM CST...A LARGE HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE. SEVERAL OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI..SOUTH OF MERIDIAN. 3 THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 50 TO 60 MILES AN HOUR.
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.