Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1986, 5:35 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1986, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1986, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin 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
Boothville, LA (KBVE), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 662 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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 092234 SVRMOB ALC003-092330- BULLETIN..IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 535 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHERN BALDWIN AT 534 PM CDT THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHEAST OF FOLEY ALABAMA..MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, AND COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. PERSONS OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER AS THIS STROM APPROACHES.
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, May 9, 4:36 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 1986 AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS..A FEW HEAVY..WERE ALONG THE COASTLINE FROM AROUND THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION TO JUST WEST OF FORT WALTON WITH OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER THE WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PAN- HANDLE..OVER ALABAMA BETWENN THOMASVILLE AND MONTGOMERY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS WHILE THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE AREA.
Special weather statement, May 9, 5:02 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 500 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 1986 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY... AT 455 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF ORANGE BEACH IN SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY. ALSO, A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE ALABAMA -FLORIDA STATELINE JUST NORTH OF PERDIDO. WHILE THESE STORMS MAY BRING WELCOME RAINFALL...PERSONS ALONG THE BALDWIN COUNTY COAST SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THESE STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS, AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORMS ARE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST AND COULD MOVE OVER THE PERDIDO INLET AND BEACH AREAS OF BALDWIN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 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.