Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1986, 4:30 PM CDT for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1986, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1986, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Conecuh 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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, Jul 16, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 230 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1986 AT 730 PM CDT...CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY..COVERED MUCH OF THE FOUR WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. HEAVIEST AND MOST WERE CONCENTRATED BETWEEN PENSACOLA AND CRESTVIEW. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DISPLAYING FREQUENT LIGHTNING ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH ALABAMA WITH THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISHING ALONG AND OFF THE ALABAMA COAST. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH ABOUT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY..CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 230 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1986 AT 230 PM CDT...CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY..COVERED MUCH OF THE FOUR WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. HEAVIEST AND MOST WERE CONCENTRATED BETWEEN PENSACOLA AND CRESTVIEW. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DISPLAYING FREQUENT LIGHTNING ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH ALABAMA WITH THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISHING ALONG AND OFF THE ALABAMA COAST. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH ABOUT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 3:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY..CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 330 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1986 AT 330 PM CDT...CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY..COVERED MUCH OF THE FOUR WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. HEAVIEST AND MOST WERE CONCENTRATED FROM PENSACOLA EAST TO SOUTH WALTON COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH ALABAMA AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF MOBILE BAY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH ABOUT 10 MPH.
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.