Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1987, 5:38 PM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi; Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1987, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1987, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mobile County, AL, 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 2555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 142241 SVRMOB MSC059-ALC097-142330- BULLETIN..IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 538 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN... MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA...AND... JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AT 538 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORM IS MOVIN'G TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
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, Jul 14, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY ...CORRECTIONS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 240 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 AT 230 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE COASTAL AREAS FROM PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI EASTARD THROUGH ALABAMA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM PENSACOLA AND MILTON TO TALLAHASSEE. SOME OF THESE STRONG STORMS SHOW EVIDENCE OF BEING ABLE TO PRODUCE HAIL...ESPECIALLY THOSE STORMS OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLEa. FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND BRIEFLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN ACCOMPANY ALL OF THE COASTAL THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 240 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 ...THUNDERSTORM CROSSING MOBILE BAY... AT 235 PM CDT THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM CENTERED OVER MOBILE BAY...ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRHOPE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH...AND WILL BRING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS INTO THE FAIRHOPE AND DAPHNE AREAS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE INCREASING ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED...NEAR OCEAN SPRINGS MISSISSIPPI...AND JUST NORTH OF PASCAGOULA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. STbAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 340 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 AT 330 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE COASTAL AREAS FROM MISSISSIPPI EASTARD THROUGH ALABAMA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM PENSACOLA TO THE APALACHICOLA RIVER. SEVERAL OF THESE STRONG STORMS SHOW INDICATIONS OF CONTAINING HAIL...ESPECIALLY THOSE STORMS OVER ALABAMA AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND BRIEFLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN ACCOMPANY ALL OF THE COASTAL THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 340 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES... AT 330 PM CDT THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE INDICATED...BETWEEN SPANISH FORT AND LOXLEY...JUST SOUTH OF POINT CLEAR...AND FROM JUST SOUTH OF THE MOBILE AIRPORT TO GRAND BAY. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 20 MPH. LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF THREATING CONDITIONS SHOULD DEVELOP
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 430 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 AT 430 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE COASTAL AREAS OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA AND EAST OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA FROM THE PENSACOLA AREA TO THE APALACHICOLA RIVER. SEVERAL OF THESE STRONG STORMS SHOW INDICATIONS OF CONTAINING HAIL...ESPECIALLY THOSE STORMS OVER ALABAMA AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND BRIEFLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN ACCOMPANY ALL OF THE COASTAL THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:21 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 525 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 AT 525 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM THE COASTAL AREAS OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA EAST OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA TO NEAR THE APALACHICOLA RIVER. SEVERAL OF THESE STRONG STORMS SHOW INDICATIONS OF CONTAINING HAIL. FREQENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1987Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.