Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1989, 5:15 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1989, 5:15 AM CDT (10:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1989, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1285 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMOB 161015
FFWMOB
ALC003-161415-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
515 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
...SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF
BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM SEMINOLE TO FOLEY...
UNTIL 915 AM CDT.
AT 505 AM THE GULF SHORES POLICE DEPARTMET REPORTED EXTENSIVE STREET
FLOODING IN AND AROUND THAT CITY. STREETS AND ROADS THAT DON'T
NORMALLY FLOOD ARE NOW UNDER WATER. HIGHWAY 182 TOWARD ORANGE BEACH
IS ALSO M
OSTLY UNDER WATER.
THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE FOR A COUPLE MORE HOURS IN THIS AREA
AND WATER IS LIKELY TO RISE INTO SOME HOMES AND BUSINESSES.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
AT9TEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 16, 1:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 130 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT... AT 130 AM CDT...A LARGE PATCH OF LIGHT RAIN MIXED WITH A SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SPREAD FROM MONTGOMERY SOUTH ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA...THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND CONTINUED INTO THE GULF 150 MILES SOUTH OF THE COAST. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA FROM PANAMA CITY NORTH TO DOTHAN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 230 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT... AT 230 AM CDT...PATCHES OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SPREAD OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND CONTINUED INTO THE GULF 150 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS OVER THE GULF JUST SOUTH OF PENSACOLA...OVER CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA AND OVER THE GULF 25 TO 50 MILES SOUTHOWEST OF PANAMA CITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 330 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 1000 AM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT... AT 330 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE OVER THE EXTREME WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM NORTH SANTA ROSA COUNTY SOUTHWEST THROUGH PENSACOLA AND CONTINUED ANOTHER 100 MILES SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF. ANOTHER LARGE PATCH OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER PANAMA CITY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS EXTENDING SEAWARD 40 MILES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 350 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 1000 AM CDT... AT 330 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE OVER THE EXTREME WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM NORTH SANTA ROSA COUNTY SOUTHWEST THROUGH PENSACOLA AND CONTINUED ANOTHER 100 MILES SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF. ANOTHER LARGE PATCH OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER PANAMA CITY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS EXTENDING SEAWARD 40 MILES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 400 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ALABAMA COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...MONROE AND CONECUH UNTIL 1000 AM... THE MOBILE RADAR AT 355 AM SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHERN CONECUH COUNTY SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY AND THEN ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY AND ON INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. THE BAND WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 15 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST ALONG IT AT 30 MPH. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS...MOSTLY MODERATE...WERE MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN THIRD OF BALDWIN COUNTY. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE IN ESCAMBIA...MONROE AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF ALABAMA UNTIL 1000 AM. IN ADDITION...SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:30 AM CDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 430 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 1000 AM CDT... AT 430 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER SOUTHWEST ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. THIS WAS PART OF A LARGE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH STRETCHED FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY SOUTHWEST TO THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE REST OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTH ALABAMA AND THE GULF EXTENDING 125 MILES SEAWARD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Elmore, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 9:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 115 min |
| Jun 16, 9:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Geneva | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 1989Every flash flood 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.