Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1986, 7:20 PM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1986, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1986, 8:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 21, 3:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 335 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1986 INTENSELY-HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE PAST HOUR ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL SECTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE BETWEEN PENSACOLA AND NAVARRE AND ALSO MOST OF BAY AND GULF COUNTIES, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN PANAMA CITY AND PORT ST JOE. THESE HEAVY STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SOME HAIL MAY FALL FROM THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE RECREATIONAL AREAS OF PENSACOLA AND PANAMA CITY ARE ADVISED TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE EVER-PRESENT THREAT OF A LIGHTNING STRIKE. ELSEWHERE, WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI, SOUTHWEST ALABAMA, AND THE NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE. LITTLE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN DETECTED.
Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
ATTN SELS STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 610 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1986 PERSONNEL AT JACK EDWARDS AIRPORT AT GULF SHORES ALABAMA REPORTED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH DURING A THUNDERSTORHM AROUND 530 PM..
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 6:42 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 640 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1986 AT 635 PM CDT...A SHORT LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED AND STRETCHED FROM SOUTHERN OKALOOSA TO EAST-CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN FLORIDA. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS, FREQUENT LIGHTNING, AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW AREAS IS LIKELY AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER URBAN AREAS. ELSEWHERE OVER LAND, THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE INDICATED OVER SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. AT SEA, A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS IN PROGRE[SS FROM 20 TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF FT WALTON BEACH.
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.