Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1986, 2:28 PM CDT for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 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 30, 1986, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1986, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon 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 30, 2:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Macon, 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 2229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1529 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.
000
TTAAOO KMGM 301928
SVRMGM
ALC087-302030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
228 PM CDT WED JUL 30 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
..MACON
AT 229PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF TUSKEGEE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH,
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL, DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOPOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 55 min |
| Jul 30, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 60 min |
| Jul 30, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 65 min |
| Jul 30, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 50 min |
| Jul 30, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 29 min |
| Jul 30, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 70 min |
| Jul 30, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.