Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1989, 1:04 PM CDT for Jackson County, Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1989, 1:04 PM CDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1989, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, AL, Marshall 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 1521 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, Jun 14, 10:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1235 PM CDT WED JUN 14 1989
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND WEST ALABAMA...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
FOR NORTHWEST ALABAMA...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR THE
NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF ALABAMA...
AT 1235 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH WEST AND NORTH
ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER WALKER...FAYETTE...
CULLMAN...WINSTON...PICKENS...AND TUSCALOOSA COUNTIES AND WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. PERSONS IN NORTH
AND WEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOP
OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
IN ADDITION...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALABAMA.
MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING OVER A WIDE AREA OF ALABAMA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO
OR TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE VERY LATEST W6EATHER
INFORMATION.Special weather statement, Jun 14, 12:45 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 1240 PM CDT WED JUN 14 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6PM... AT 1235 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH ALABAMA. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF WILCOX COUNTY...AND EASTWARD TO NEW BROCKTON IN COFFEE COUNTY. THE LINE WAS DRIFTING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH. SOME OF THE STORMS WERE PRODUYCING TORRENTIAL RAIN...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHWEST WILCOX COUNTY AND JUST SOUTH OF PINEAPPLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND SOME SMALL HAIL. DEVAUGHN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 67 min |
| Jun 14, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne | 69 min |
| Jun 14, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 69 min |
| Jun 14, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall, Morgan | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 46 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.