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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

February 10, 1986Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 1986, 1:30 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report 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: Feb 10, 1986, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Feb 10, 1986, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Wilcox 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
Feb 10, 1:35 PM CST	Hail 1	Wilcox, 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMGM 101928
TORMGM
ALC131-102030-

BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
130 PM CST MON FEB 10 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 230 PM FOR WILCOX COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.

AT 125 PM RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF PINEAPPLE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE PATH OF THE STORM WILL TAKE IT VERY
CLOSE TO PINEAPPLE.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROxACHES...YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE
IMMEDIATELY...AND YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO
RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE.

DEVAUGHN

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, 1:44 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
Feb 10, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	60 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.