Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1989, 7:10 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1989, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1989, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, AL, Cleburne 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 3006 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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 18, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 415 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1989 MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING IN INTENSITY OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA AT 4 PM CDT. SEVERAL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL. ALSO SINCE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SOAKED FROM LAST WEEKS HEAVY RAINS LOCAL FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER AUTAUGA...ELMORE...COVINGTON... CRENSHAW...COFFEE...PIKE...AND BARBOUR COUNTIES ALABAMA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA STATE LINE AND WILL BE MOVING INTO HOUSTON COUNTY SHORTLY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR..
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 513 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTROM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALABAMA. THIS WATCH DOES INCLUDE MARION COUNTY. AT 512 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT CENTREVILLE INDICATED A SMALL BUT STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SHELBY COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF WESTOVER AND VINCENT MOVING TOWARDS TALLADEGA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE CENTRAL COUNTIES...MAINLY NORTH OF BIRMINGHAM...NORTHWEST OF TUSCALOOSA ...AND IN SOUTHERN MARENGO COUNTY. SINCE THE AIR IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP RAPIDLY. THEREFORE YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IF A THUNDERSTORM SHOULD FORM IN YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:12 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 610 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTROM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALABAMA. THIS WATCH DOES INCLUDE MARION COUNTY. AT 610 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT CENTREVILLE INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN NEAR TALLADEGA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. THE TALLADEGA COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH THE STORM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARDS MOUNT CHEAHA AND THE ANNISTON/OXFORD AREA. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM JASPER TO SPRINGVILLE...MOVING TOWARDS CULLMAN...ONEONTA AND GADSDEN. OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER MARENGO COUNTY...MAINLY NEAR LINDEN. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NOW OVER WESTERN TENNESSEE WILL BE AFFECTING THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES WITHIN A COUPLE OF HOURS. . IF A THUNDERSTORM IS APPROACHING YOUR AREA...YOU NEED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOO/RS DUE TO THE LIGHTNING ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:16 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 615 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1989 MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN A NARROW BAND OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 4:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb | 2 hr |
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.