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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 22, 1989Bibb County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1989, 7:22 PM CDT for Bibb County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1989, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1989, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bibb County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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, May 22, 2:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
235 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989

SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA EARLY THIS
AFERNOON.  SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HAIL...DAMAGING
LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS.  PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED OVER TRUSSVILLE
IN NORTHEAST JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 2:15 PM.

AT 235 PM ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN
JEFFERSON COUNTY...THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE GRAYSVILLE AND
ADAMSVILLE AREAS WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

MOIST UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE STATE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING A THREAT OF
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE...WITH SOME STORMS POSSIBLY BE3COMING
SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. KEEP UP TO DATE ON THE LATEST
WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS THE WEATHER DEVELOPES.
Special weather statement, May 22, 4:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
440 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989

AT 430 PM CDT MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS
WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM CHOCTAW COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA TO
NORTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AND HOUR AND WERE MOVING INTO
SOUTHWEST WILCOX COUNTY AND SHOULD MOVE INTO DALLAS...BUTLER AND
COVINGTON COUNTIES WITHIN THE HOUR.

HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME
HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD RAMAIN
ALERT TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND LISTEN TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.

RAGLAND
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
530 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989

AT 530 PM CDT MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUING OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM DEMOPOLIS SOUTHEAST TO GEORGIANA IN
SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST
CRENSHAW COUNTY...CENTRAL COFFEE COUNTY AND ALONG THE ALABAMA-GEORIA
STATE LINE IN SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST-
NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR.

HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME
HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD RAMAIN
ALERT TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND LISTEN TO
N:OAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.

RAGLAND
Special weather statement, May 22, 6:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
605 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989

AT 600 PM CDT MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUING OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN WEST-
CENTRAL ALABAMA TO SELMA...TO NEAR FT DEPOSIT AND SOUTH INTO BUTLER AND
CRENSHAW COUNTIES. THE BAND EXTENDED INTO NORTHWEST FLORIDA. ISLOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER DALE AND NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTIES. MOVEMENT
WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR AND THE STORMS WILL BE
APPROACHING WEST MONTGOMERY WITHIN THE HOUR.

HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME
HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD RAMAInN
ALERT TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND LISTEN TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.

RAGLAND
Special weather statement, May 22, 6:38 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
635 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989

SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER
CENTRAL ALABAMA. AT 635 PM CDT...THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED IN EXTREME SOUTHERN CULLMAN COUNTY...SOUTHERN TALLADEGA
COUNTY NEAR SYLACAUGA...AND GREENE COUNTY NORTHEAST OF BOLIGEE.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN
HOUR.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. RADAR DOES INDICATE
THE PRESENCE OF HAIL IN THE STORM LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN CULLMAN
COUNTY.

MOIST UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE STATE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING A THREAT OF
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE. SINCE SOME STORMS COULD BECOME
SEVERE TONIGHT...PEOPLE SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 22, 6:44 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
644 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989

AT 640 PM CDT MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA IN A BAND FROM AUTAUGA COUNTY
SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY INTO PIKE...DALE AND HENRY
COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND
30 MILES AN HOUR.

HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME
HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. PERSONS IN SOUTH ALABAMA SHOULD RAMAIN
ALERT TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND LISTEN TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.

RAGLAND

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLauderdale61 min
May 22, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison, Morgan56 min
May 23, 11:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry46 min
May 23, 12:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarengo40 min

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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.