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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

February 10, 1986Jackson County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 1986, 5:05 PM CST for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 10, 1986, 5:05 PM CST (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Feb 10, 1986, 5:30 PM CST
In force
25 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, 11.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Boothville, LA at 12:00Z on 1986-02-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 688 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, Boothville, LA at 12:00Z on 1986-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
688 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 10:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBForrest, Perry35 min
Feb 10, 11:15 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBGreene, Perry45 min
Feb 10, 11:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGeorge, Perry, Stone40 min
Feb 10, 4:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBHarrison, Jackson55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.