Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Birmingham, AL
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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 56 min |
| Nov 8, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 47 min |
| Nov 8, 4:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 61 min |
| Nov 8, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 42 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.