Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 1986, 3:45 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 10, 1986, 3:45 PM CST (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1986, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 60 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 12:00Z, 9.8 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
- 688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 102145 SVRMOB ALC003-102245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 345 PM CST MON FEB 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN BALDWIN COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. AT 345 PM CST RADAR AT MOBILE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DAUPHIN ISLAND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO MOBILE BAY AND ACROSS BON SECOUR BAY INTO EXTREME SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. PERSONS IN EXTREME SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED.
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, Feb 10, 10:47 AM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1035 AM CST MON FEB 10 1986 AT 1030 AM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY..MIXED WITH PATCHES OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE..SOUTHWEST ALABAMA..SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI..AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WITHIN A 25 MILE RADIUS OF PENSACOLA.. AND AROUND MARIANNA IN JACKSON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WIND AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR..FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES..POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL..FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS..AND ROUGH SEAS FOR BOATUERS ..PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 11:45 AM CST, 4 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1135 AM CST MON FEB 10 1986 AT 1130 AM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY..MIXED WITH PATCHES OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE..SOUTHWEST ALABAMA..SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI..AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM ALONG THE COASTLINE BETWEEN MOBILE BAY AND PENSACOLA..FROM AROUND PENSACOLA TO CRESTVIEW.. AND IN MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN HATTIESBURG AND MOBILE. THE OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY FROM CRESTVIEW TO EAST OF MARIANNA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WIND AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR..FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES..POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL..FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS..AND ROUGH SEAS FOR BOATERS ..PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 12:43 PM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1235 PM CST MON FEB 10 1986 AT 1230 PM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY..MIXED WITH PATCHES OF RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE..SOUTHERN ALABAMA.. SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI..AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER THE WESTERN 75 MILES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE..AND BETWEEN MOBILE AND MARIDIAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WIND AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR..FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES..POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL..FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS..AND ROUGH SEAS FQOR BOATERS ..PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AND KEEP ABREAST OF THE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 53 min |
| Feb 10, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 76 min |
| Feb 10, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.