Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1986, 5:05 PM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1986, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 25, 4:14 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 410 PM CDT MON AUG 25 1986 ...HAIL WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 4 PM MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MOIBLE AT THE INTERSECTION OF INTERSTATE I10 AND I65. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN LEEKESVILLE AND MERRIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DRIFTING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST SLOWLY. PERSON IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FOR THE NEXT 2 OR 3 HOURS. THE THUDNERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 4:22 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 410 PM CDT MON AUG 25 1986 ...HAIL WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 4 PM MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MOBILE AT THE INTERSECTION OF INTERSTATE I10 AND I65. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN LEEKESVILLE AND MERRIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DRIFTING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST SLOWLY. PERSON IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THE NEXT 2 OR 3 HOURS. THE THUDNERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 40 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.