Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1989, 6:21 PM CST for Blount County, Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1989, 6:21 PM CST (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1989, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blount County, AL, Cullman 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 26.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Mar 5, 12:29 PM CST, 5 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1230 AM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH 23 IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST FOR CHILTON...DALLAS... AND WILCOX COUNTIES OF CENTRAL ALABAMA AND MOST OF WEST ALABAMA... AT 1225 PM MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVED INTO WILCOX COUNTY DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS STRONG FOR CENTRAL ALABAMA. THEREFORE...PREPRATIONS FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD CONTINUE. HILTO)N
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 2:45 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 243 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 THE TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... LAUDERADALE...COLBERT...FRANKLIN...MARION...LAMAR. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THESE COUNTIES.
Local storm report, Mar 5, 3:30 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 3 25 PM CST SUN MAR 05 1989 DALLAS COUNTY...PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY SELMA STATE AT 2 45PM CST DALLAS COUNTY...3 25PM CST GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT MARION JUNCTION BY AMATUER RADIO PERSONNEL. DALLAS COUNTY SEVERAL WALL CLOUDS REPORTED AROUND DALLAS COUNTY WEST OF SELMA AROUND 2 45PM CST. REPORTS FROM AMATEUR RADIO. PETTIT
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 4:40 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 440 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH 24 IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST FOR SOUTH ALABAMA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTH OF MONTGOMERY TONIGHT... AT 440 PM CST MONTGOMERY'S WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN A LONG BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS THAT STRETCHED FROM GADSDEN ALABAMA TO BIRMINGHAM THEN SOUTH TO JUST WEST OF MONTGOMERY AND EVERGREEN ALABAMA. THE BAND IS ABOUT 35 MILES WIDE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE BAND IS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN BUTLER COUNTY 15 MILES NORTH OF CHAPMAN AND IN WEST LOWNDES COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. IF YOU ARE NEAR ONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS RMEMEMBER THAT METAL IS CONDUCTOR AND LIGHTNING IS VERY POWERFUL ELECTRICITY. SNELL
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 4:43 PM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT--WATCH TIME CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 440 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH 24 IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST FOR SOUTH ALABAMA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTH OF MONTGOMERY TONIGHT... AT 440 PM CST MONTGOMERY'S WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN A LONG BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS THAT STRETCHED FROM GADSDEN ALABAMA TO BIRMINGHAM THEN SOUTH TO JUST WEST OF MONTGOMERY AND EVERGREEN ALABAMA. THE BAND IS ABOUT 35 MILES WIDE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE BAND IS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN BUTLER COUNTY 15 MILES NORTH OF CHAPMAN AND IN WEST LOWNDES COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. IF YOU ARE NEAR ONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS REMEMBER THAT METAL IS A CONDUCTOR AND LIGHTNING IS VERY POWERFUL ELECTRICITY. SNELL
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 4:44 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT--WATCH TIME CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 440 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH 24 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST FOR SOUTH ALABAMA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTH OF MONTGOMERY TONIGHT... AT 440 PM CST MONTGOMERY'S WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN A LONG BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS THAT STRETCHED FROM GADSDEN ALABAMA TO BIRMINGHAM THEN SOUTH TO JUST WEST OF MONTGOMERY AND EVERGREEN ALABAMA. THE BAND IS ABOUT 35 MILES WIDE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE BAND IS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN BUTLER COUNTY 15 MILES NORTH OF CHAPMAN AND IN WEST LOWNDES COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. IF YOU ARE NEAR ONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS REMEMBER THAT METAL IS A CONDUCTOR AND LIGHTNING IS VERY POWERFUL ELECTRICITY. SNELL
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.