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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 8, 1989Hale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 1989, 5:55 PM CST for Hale County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 8, 1989, 5:55 PM CST (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 1989, 7:00 PM CST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Hale 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 43 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, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1989-11-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1989-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Nov 8, 12:42 PM CST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
1238 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989

...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTH COUNTIES UNTIL 6PM...
...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES
ALONG THE FLORIDA BORDER...

RADAR SHOWED WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN
THIRD OF ALABAMA AT 1235 PM. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAIN...ESPECIALLY IN A BAND FROM TUSKEGEE TO JUST SOUTH OF
MONTGOMERY...TO NEAR PINEAPPLE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR
TROY AND JUST SOUTHWEST OF EUFAULA.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL
BE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...4AND
MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF HIGHWAYS...STREETS...AND SMALL STREAMS.

DEVAUGHN
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 2:21 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
220 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989

...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTH COUNTIES UNTIL 6PM...
...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES
ALONG THE FLORIDA BORDER UNTIL 445PM...

RADAR SHOWED WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN
THIRD OF ALABAMA AT 215 PM. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAIN...ESPECIALLY IN A BAND FROM UNION SPRINGS TO TROY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL
BE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND
MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF HIGHWAYS...STREETS...AND SMALL STREAMS.

DEVAUGHN
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 2:46 PM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
245 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989

AT 240 PM RADAR INDIACTED NO PRECIPITATIOPN OVER NORTH ALABAMA BUT
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF SOUTH
ALABAMA.

DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED
OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI ALONG A COLD FRONT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND MORE
WATCHES ARE LIKELY TO BE POSTED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS
AS THE FRONT MOVES SOUTHEAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MISSISSIPPI WERE
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND COULD REACH THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF ALABAMA
BY 400 PM.

PERSONS IN ALABAMA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND LISTEN TO RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO
FOR LATER STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLE WATCHES OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 3:30 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
330 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989

...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTH COUNTIES UNTIL 6PM...
...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES
ALONG THE FLORIDA BORDER UNTIL 445PM...

RADAR SHOWED WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN
THIRD OF ALABAMA AT 330 PM. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAIN.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL
BE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND
MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF HIGHWAYS...STREETS...AND SMALL STREAMS.

NEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI
AND OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA.  PERSONS IN SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD KEEP
ABREAST OF LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BULLETINS FOR THE POSSIBILITY
OF ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 5:03 PM CST, 52 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 8, 4:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Pickens56 min
Nov 8, 4:13 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXGreene, Pickens47 min
Nov 8, 4:59 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXGreene61 min
Nov 8, 5:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene42 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.