Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1988, 8:21 PM CDT for Coosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1988, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1988, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coosa County, AL
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
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 893 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMGM 270123
SVRMGM
ALC037-270230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
821 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...COOSA
AT 821 CDT RADAR AT MONTGOMERY OBSERVED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN COOSA
COUNTY BETWEEN ROCKFORD AND LAKE JORDAN THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
SOUTH AT ABOUT 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS LIKELY TO CARRY HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Jun 26, 3:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 305 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES AND ALMOST ALL SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES... AT 300 PM RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CLARK COUNTY ALABAMA AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTHWEST OF MOBILE AND EAST OF FAIRHOPE. IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING NEAR HURLEY IN JACKSON COUNTY AND NEAR HATTIESBURG. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. DURING THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOPE IN OTHER AREAS. IF YOU ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WITNESS HEAVY RAINFALL ...DO SO IN A SAFE STRUCTURE. THyE HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANED BY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 635 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1988 AT 630 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM CRESTVIEW TO DESTIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS...THUNDERSTORMS...AND PATCHES OyF LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTH ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Henry, Houston | 69 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.