Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1986, 6:40 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1986, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1986, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Montgomery, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1016 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAAOO KMGM 232340
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ALC101-240045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
640 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
..MONTGOMERY
AT 6 40PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST MONTGOMRY MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST AT 10
MPH.
AT 6 30 PM CDT SEVERE LIGHTNING AND PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN
EAST MONTGOMERY.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 23, 2:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT MON JUL 21 1986 AT 230 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN WALTON.. WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN BAY COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHT- NING STRIKES AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH. MARINE INTEREST IN THE COASTAL WATERS OF WALTON AND BAY COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO YOUR WEATHER INFORMATION STATION OTHER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED. ELSEWHERE WIDESPREAD RAhIN AND THUNERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY(CORRECTION DATE/TIME) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1986 AT 230 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN WALTON.. WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN BAY COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHT- NING STRIKES AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH. MARINE INTEREST IN THE COASTAL WATERS OF WALTON AND BAY COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO YOUR WEATHER INFORMATION STATION OTHER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED.} ELSEWHERE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 3:40 PM CDT, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 335 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1986 AT 330 PM CDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER THE SOUTHERN 2/3 OF WALTON AND SOUTHERN 1/2 OF OKALOOSA COUNTIES FLORIDA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHT- NING STRIKES AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE WEST-SOUTHWEST AROUND 12 MPH. MARINE INTEREST AND RECREATIONIST ALONG THE BEACHES OF WALTON AND OKALOOSA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE APPROACH OF THESE STORMS AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO YOUR WEATHER INFORMATION STATION. OTHER STATEMENTS AND/OR WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED. ELSEWHERE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:40 PM CDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 440 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1986 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS POUND WESTERN MOBILE... AT 435 PM CDT THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MUCH OF CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY FROM JUST WEST OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA TO NEAR WILMER. THESE STORMS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 41 MPH SHORTLY BEFORE 4 PM CDT AT THE MOBILE AIRPORT AND DUMPED 2.55 INCHES OF RAIN ON THE AIRPORT IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR BETWEEN 330 AND 430 PM. THE STORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY NEARLY CONINUOUS LIGHTNING. OTHER VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST OF THESE WERE LOCATED...5 MILES EAST OF PICAYUNE MISSISSIPPI...15 MILES NORTH OF GULFPORT...AND 30 MILES EAST OF BREWTON ALABAMA. ALL OF THE STORMS ARE DRIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, STRONG WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1986 A CLUSTER OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER OKALOOSA AND WESTERN WALTON COUNTIES IN THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WAS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM EASTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY TO THE APALACHICOLA RIVER. THE RIN EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND INTO THE GULF SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF PANAMA CITY FOR 50 MILES. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS, BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINFALL, AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AS THEY AND THE ACCOMPANYING LIGHT RAIN MOVE TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH. ELSEWHERE, SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER COASTAL MISSISSIPPI AND OVER THE MOBILE AREA OF ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 535 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1986 SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE BETWEEN MILTON AND CRESTVIEW TO THE FORT WALTON BEACH AREA. WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WAS OVER SOUTH ALABAMA AND EXTENDED SOUTHWARD ACROSS MOST OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE (EXCEPT PENSACOLA...) INTO THE GULF FOR 50 TO 75 MILES. THESE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS, FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES, AND BRIEFLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AS THEY DRIFT SOUTH THE SOUTHWEST. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER COASTAL MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. P
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dale, Houston | 60 min |
| Jul 23, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 50 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.