Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1986, 6:15 PM CDT for Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1986, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock 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
Boothville, LA (KBVE), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 2973 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 18, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 AT 230 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE..SOUTH ALABAMA..AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN PENSACOLA AND CRESTVIEW..AND BETWEEN FORT WALTON AND CRESTVIEW. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AND SPREADING OUT..AND DRIFTING SLOWLY NORTH. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN.. GUSTY WIND AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL..AND SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 335 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 AT 330 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE..SOUTHWEST ALABAMA..AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM NORTHEAST OF PENSACOLA TO AROUND MILTON AND CRESTVIEW..BETWEEN MILTON AND FAIRHOPE ALABAMA..AND FROM NORTH OF APALACHICOLA TO NORTH OF BONIFAY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AND SPREADING OUT..AND MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN.. GUSTY WIND AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL..AND SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF STREETS A$ND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 445 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS..PORODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM PENSACOLA TO MILTON, CRESTVIEW, AND MARIANNA IN JACKSON COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DUMPING HEAVY RAINS WHICH WILL CAUSE STREET AND LOW AREA FLOODING. MOTORIST SHOULD AVOID AND S~TAY CLEAR OF AREAS WITH STADNING WATER. OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MOBILE AND IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSUPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING VERY LITTLE.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:42 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 545 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 AT 530 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE INLAND AREAS FROM MISSISSIPPI TO PANAMA CITY AND APALACHICOLA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEGAN AT LEAST 10 MILES INLAND AND WERE MOVING VERY LITTLE. DUE TO THE INDICATED HEAVY RAIN AND SLOW MOVEMENT, FLOODING OF LOW AND URBAN AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE IS LIKELY. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID THE STANDING WATER AREAS.
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.