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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL

June 28, 1986Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1986, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Harrison 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 1986-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4332 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1986-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
4332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.