Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 25, 1986, 10:05 PM CST for Barbour County, Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 25, 1986, 10:05 PM CST (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 25, 1986, 11:05 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, AL, Dale County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado F3 | Barbour, AL | |
| Nov 25, 10:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Barbour, AL | |
| Nov 25, 11:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Barbour, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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 25, 5:35 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 540 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. AT 530 PM CST...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... THE EXTREME WESTERN END OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND INTO THE GULF TO MORE THAN 225 MILES SOUTH OF THE ALABAMA COASTLINE. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE FROM NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA SOUTHWAR ALONG EASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA AND INTO THE GULF TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF GULF SHORES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 6:25 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 615 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES...BUT THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE... AT 615 PM CST RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE LOCATED...OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY...AND FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF BREWTON TO 10 MILES WEST OF EVERGREEN. THESE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS ]WARRANT.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 6:26 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 625 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES...BUT THE WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE... AT 625 PM CST RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE LOCATED...OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY...AND FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF BREWTON TO 10 MILES WEST OF EVERGREEN. THESE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS `WARRANT.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 6:35 PM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 640 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. AT 630 PM CST...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... THE EXTREME WESTERN END OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND INTO THE GULF TO MORE THAN 225 MILES SOUTH OF THE ALABAMA COASTLINnE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 7:37 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 740 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. AT 730 PM CST...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... THE EXTREME WESTERN END OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND INTO THE GULF TO MORE THAN 225 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 8:43 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 840 PM CST TUE NOV 25 1986 THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA...IT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 830 PM CST...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER ALL OF SOUTH ALABAMA...PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... THE WESTERN END OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...AND INTO THE GULF TO MORE THAN 225 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 60 min |
| Nov 26, 12:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 66 min |
| Nov 26, 12:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 59 min |
| Nov 26, 12:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 57 min |
| Nov 26, 1:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pike | 58 min |
| Nov 26, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee | 65 min |
| Nov 26, 2:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dale | 67 min |
| Nov 26, 2:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Dale | 55 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.