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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 1986Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 1986, 2:45 PM CST for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 24, 1986, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Nov 24, 1986, 3:40 PM CST
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe 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, 8.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1986-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 540 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 1986-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
540 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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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, Nov 24, 9:41 AM CST, 5 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
940 AM MON NOV 24 1986

...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA AND GEORGE
COUNTY MISSISSIPPI...

THE MOBILE WEATHER RADAR AT 935 AM INDICATED A CLUSTER OF HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA AND THE
EASTERN HALF OF GEORGE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI.  THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA TODAY.  RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR WEATHER
EVENTS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

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.