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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Mobile, AL

August 2, 1986Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1986, 2:50 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1986, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1986, 3:50 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Escambia 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1986-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2020 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1986-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
2020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Aug 2, 12:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
1234 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 1986

..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 452 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR ESCAMBIA..SANTA ROSA..OKALOOSA COUNTIES IN FLORIDA..AND FOR THE
ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS.

AT 1230 PM CDT...A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED 15 MILES WEST
OF THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION..AND A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS 10
MILES NORTHEAST OF APALACHICOLA.
VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND
WERE MOVING INTO CHOCTAW COUNTY ALABAMA.
THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR LAUREL AND NEAR HATTIESBURG IN
MISSISSIPPI.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT
LIGHTNING STRIKES..STRONG GUSTY WIND..AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED
TO TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS.
Local storm report, Aug 2, 2:10 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
 210 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 1986

115PM-130PM..TIME APPROX..GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED EAST 9-MILE
ROAD (NORTH PENSACOLA) AND 1/2 INCH HAIL HIWAY 90..FOX-RUN AREA JUST
NORTHWEST OF PENSACOLA.
150 PM CDT..SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORT MINOR FIRES STARTED BY LIGHTNING...
            (GRASS FIRE AT FERRY PASS...AND A PRIVACY FENCE IN NE PNS).
             ALSO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT PNS AIRPORT.

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 2:21 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
ATTN SELS
STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
220 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 1986

THE MOBILE STATE TROOPERS OFFICE REPORTED HAIL MARBLE SIZE..VERY
STRONG WINDS AND RAIN SO HARD THAT THEY COULD NUOT SEE THE GROUND.
..OCCURRED AROUND 200 PM ON DAUPHIN ISLAND PARKWAY..ABOUT 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF THE MOBILE AIRPORT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile60 min
Aug 2, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington60 min
Aug 2, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin, Mobile67 min
Aug 2, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin, Escambia60 min
Aug 2, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile60 min
Aug 2, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington67 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.