Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 1989, 12:14 AM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 1989, 12:14 AM CST (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1989, 12:45 AM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 415 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMEI 210613
SVRMEI
ALC023-210645-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1214 AM CST TUE FEB 21 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
...NORTHERN CHOCTAW
AT 1212 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF
BUTLER ALABAMA IN CHOCTAW COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.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, Feb 20, 10:29 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED ARE NORTH OF WEST POINT NO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS LONGER IN WATCH 1030 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 7 REMAINS IN EFFECT IN MISSISSIPPI EAST OF A WEST POINT-FOREST-MCCOMB LINE... THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THE DAMAGE IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI EARLIER THIS EVENING HAVE NOW SHIFTED INTO EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI.
Local storm report, Feb 20, 11:00 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1100 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 AT 1052 PM CST JASPER COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL 2 MILES WEST OF BAY SPRINGS MISSISSIPPI.
Local storm report, Feb 20, 11:14 PM CST, 1 hour before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1115 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 AT 1102 PM CST JASPER COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED NUMEROUS SIGHTING OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AND DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINEKS NEAR STRINGER MISSISSIPPI IN SOUTHWEST JASPER COUNTY.
Local storm report, Feb 20, 11:20 PM CST, 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1120 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989
DELAYED STORM REPORTS FOR MONDAY FEBRUARY 20 ,1989
1130 AM...PEA SIZE HAIL NORTH OF CLARKSDALE.
425 PM...WALL CLOUD NEAR VICKSBURG.
438 PM...10-15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VICKSBURG POSSIBLE TORNADO.
440 PM...LONG LAKE NORTH OF VICKSBURG...PUBLIC REPORTED TORNADO.
458 PM...GOLF BALL SIZE AND SILVER DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND WINDS OF 50 TO
60 MPH AT VICKSBURG.
500 PM...EXTENSIVE WIND DAMAGE AT VICKSBURG. SEVERAL MOTELS LOST ROOFS
ALONG WITH ROOF DAMAGE TO HOMES. ONE UNOCCUPIED MOBILE HOME
DESTROYED. NUMEROUS HOMES WITHOUT POWER.
502 PM...POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF VICKSBURG ON HIGHWAY 61.
548 PM...JACKSON/HINDS EOC REPORTED TORNADO ON THE GROUND SOUTHWEST OF
OF FLORA IN MADISON COUNTY.
655 PM...EIGHT HOUSES FLOODED AT SHELBY IN NORTHERN BOLIVAR COUNTY.
725 PM...TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN AT PORT GIBSON IN CLAIBORNE
COUNTY.
745 PM...TORNADO TOUCH DOWN AT FRENCH CAMP IN CHOCTAW COUNTY.
803 PM...WIND DAMAGE TO HOMES...TREES AND POWER LINES AT UTICA IN
HINDS COUNTY.
815-830 PM...DAMAGING WINDS DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES IN JACKSON.
CONSIDERABLE ROOF DAMAGE TO HOMES DUE TO HIGH WINDS AND
TREES ON HOUSES. ROOF OF DAMAGE TO BEST WESTERN MOTEL ON
HIGHWAY 80 AND ELLIS AVENUE. SEVERAL THOUSAND HOMES
WITHOUT POWER.
900 PM...TREES DOWN 5 MILES SOUTH OF HAZLEHURST IN COPIAH COUNTY.
915 PM...ONE LARGE TREE DOWN AT HAZLEHURST IN COPIAH COUNTY.
915 PM...NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN THE NORTHERN PART OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
920 PM...POEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL 2 MILES SOUTH OF CARTHAGE IN LEAKE
COUNTY.
930 PM...NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN NORTHERN PORTION OF
LINCOLN COUNTY.Local storm report, Feb 20, 11:25 PM CST, 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1127 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 AT 1125 PM CST JASPER COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES EAST OF BAYS SPRINGS MISSISSIPPI.
Local storm report, Feb 20, 11:45 PM CST, 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1140 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989
850 TO 855PM CST...TREES DOWN AND TORNADO REPORTED 5 MILES NORTH
OF LOUISVILLE IN WINSTON COUNTY MI{SSISSIPPI.
REPORTED BY HAMS AND LOUISVILLE P.D.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.