Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1986, 11:20 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1986, 11:20 PM CDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1986, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 115 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 00:00Z, 4.3 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
- 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
Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:11 PM CDT, 5 hours 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, 4 hours 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 7:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 745 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1986 AT 740 PM CDT...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED FROM THE CRESTVIEW AND MILTON AREA AND LAY ALONG THE COASTLINE FROM FT WALTON BEACH TO NAVARRE BEACH FLORIDA. THESE STROMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IN ADDITION TO GUSTY WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 12 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ON THE BEACHES IN SANTA ROSA COUNTY SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IN ADDITIONAL TO THE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES, HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW AREAS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE APALACHICOLA RIVER AND WERE MOVING TOWARD PANAMA CITY FLORIDA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Local storm report, Jun 21, 7:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
ATTN SELS
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
745 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1986
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN THE
PAST FEW MINUTES...
..700 PM...MARBLE SIZE HAIL 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE MOBILE AIRPORT
..710 PM...HAIL 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE AIRPORT.
..720 PM...HAIL THE SIZE OF PING PONG BALLS REPORTED BY STATE TROOPERS
3 MILES SOUTH OF THE AIRPORT.Local storm report, Jun 21, 8:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
855 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1986
TIME EVENT
401 PM CDT WIND GUSTS TO 59 KTS (68 MPH) OCCURRED AT THE
PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION DURING VERY HEAVY RAIN.
408 PM CDT PEA-SIZE HAIL AT SAME LOCATION.
410 PM CDT A SECOND WIND GUST TO 45 KTS (52 MPH) PENSACOLA NAVAL
AIR STATION.
515 PM CDT SKYWARN CO-ORDINATOR REPORTED POWER LINES DOWN,
SEVERAL POWER TRANSFORMERS BLOWN, AND SEVERAL HOUSE-
FIRES BELIEVED STARTED BY LIGHTNING STRIKES.
]Local storm report, Jun 21, 8:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
ATTN SELS STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 820 PM CDT SAT JUN 21 1986 A WALA-TV CAMERA CREW REPORTED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN BALDWIN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON BLEW A 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE OFF THE ROADWAY AND BLEW DOWN POWER POLES. THIS EVENT OCCURRED AROUND 520 PM NEAR FOLEY AL.
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.