Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1989, 5:32 PM CST for Greene County, Hale County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 1989, 5:32 PM CST (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 1989, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 5:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Greene, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 315 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBHM 202334
SVRBHM
ALC063-065-210030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
532 PM CST MON MAR 20 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...GREENE...HALE
AT 530 PM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER GREENE
COUNTY AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
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, Mar 20, 4:03 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
400 PM CST MON MAR 20 1989
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 41 IN EFFECT FOR
MUCH OF ALABAMA UNTIL 900 PM CST...
THE WATCH AREA IS TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF SUCH COUNTIES OF GREENE...
HALE AND PERRY AND EXTENDS TO THE GULF COAST. INCLUDED IN THE WATCH
ARE CITIES SUCH AS LINDEN...MARION...DEMOPOLIS...GROVE HILL...MOBILE...
AND BAY MINETTE.
AT 400 PM CST A STRONG COLD FRONT OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND EASTERN
TEXAS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD ALABAMA WHILE THE STRONGEST STORMS
WERE LOCATED IN STILL IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND THE SOUTHERN HALF
OF MISSISSIPPI. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NEAR THE ALABAMA/
MISSISSIPPI LINE AT 400 PM CST. THESE WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO EXTREME
WEST ALABAMA BEFORE 500 PM.
PERSONS IN WEST AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD KEEP INFORMED OF THE
LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY
SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.Special weather statement, Mar 20, 4:10 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
TSPECI KBHM 202210 COR
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
400 PM CST MON MAR 20 1989
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 41 IN EFFECT FOR
MUCH OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 900 PM CST...
THE WATCH AREA IS TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF SUCH COUNTIES OF GREENE...
HALE AND PERRY AND EXTENDS TO THE GULF COAST. INCLUDED IN THE WATCH
AREA ARE CITIES SUCH AS LINDEN...MARION...DEMOPOLIS...GROVE HILL...
MOBILE...AND BAY MINETTE.
AT 400 PM CST A STRONG COLD FRONT OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND EASTERN
TEXAS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD ALABAMA WHILE THE STRONGEST STORMS
WERE LOCATED IN SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND THE SOUTHERN HALF OF
MISSISSIPPI. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NEAR THE ALABAMA/
MISSISSIPPI LINE AT 400 PM CST. THESE WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO EXTREME
WEST ALABAMA BEFORE 500 PM.
PERSONS IN WEST AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD KEEP INFORMED OF THE
LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY
SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.