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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Mobile, AL

August 1, 1986Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1986, 4:55 PM CDT for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1986, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Harrison 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Boothville, LA at 12:00Z on 1986-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 361 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Boothville, LA at 12:00Z on 1986-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAAAL KMOB 012158 COR
SVRMOB
MSC047-012300-

BULLETIN..IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
455 PM CDT FRI AUG 1 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS:

HARRISON

AT 453 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG #THE COAST NEAR
BILOXI AND BETWEEN GULFPORT AND PASS CHRISTIAN.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING
VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST, AND WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...INTENSE
LIGHTNING, VERY HEAVY RAIN, AND POSSIBLY HAIL.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBHancock45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.