Alert archive / Alabama / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 1989, 8:08 AM CDT for Elmore County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1989, 8:08 AM CDT (13:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1989, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elmore County, AL, Montgomery 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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ALC051-101-161515-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
808 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...ELMORE...MONTGOMERY
MONTGOMERY WEATHER RADAR...SATELLITE INFORMATION...AND RAINFALL TOTALS
SHOW THAT HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER MONTGOMERY AND ELMORE COUNTIES.
SINCE MIDNIGHT MONTGOMERYS DANNELLYS DANNELLY FIELD RECEIVED ABOUT
2.25 INCHES OF RAIN. IT IS STILL RAINING HEAVILY IN THE TWO COUNTY
AREA. STREAMS...DRAINAGE DITHES AND STREETS ARE FLOODED AND ADDITIONAL
HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER bTRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.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, 4:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 530 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 1000 AM CDT... AT 530 AM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN STRETCHED FROM JUST EAST OF BREWTON TO WEST OF PENSACOLA AND CONTINUED 50 MILES INTO THE GULF. THE LINE WAS STATIONARY WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHDEAST ALONG THE LINE AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE GULF EXTENDING 150 MILES SEAWARD.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
545 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989
A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS
WAS MOVING THROUGH THE WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE.
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM AROUND THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR
STATION NORTHEAST ACROSS MILTON AND MUNSON AND INTO ALABAMA NEAR
ANDALUSIA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF
TO 125 MILES OFFSHORE.
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST...WITH THE INDIVIDUAL
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
THE THUNDERSTORMS DROPPED A LITTLE OVER AN INCH OF RAIN AT THE
PENSACOLA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AS THEY MOVED ACROSS
THE AREA DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS. WINDS GUSTED TO AROUND 35 MILES
AN HOUR AS THE STORMS MOVED INTO SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE SOME STREET AND POOR DRAINAGE AREA
FLOODING FOR THE NEXT HOUR. MOTORIST SHOULD DRIVE{ WITH EXTRA CAUTION
AND AVOID AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING.Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 630 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 1000 AM CDT... AT 630 AM CDT...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN STRETCHED FROM MONTGOMERY SOUTHWEST THROUGH PENSACOLA CONTINUING INTO THE GULF TO THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THIS BAND WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST SO SOME LOCAL FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS IS LIKELY. A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND GULF NEAR APALACHICOLA AND PANAMA CITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 705 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PORTION OF BALDWIN COUNTY UNTIL 915 AM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MONROE...CONCUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF ALABAMA UNTIL 1000 AM. THE GULF SHORES POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FEW MINUTES AGO THAT NUMEROUS ROADS ARE FLOODED AND BECOMING IMPASSABLE. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE IN THE FLOOD AREA UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSDAY. WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATE THAT THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED VERY LITTLE DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS. STRONG WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE STILL MOVING INTO BALDWIN COUNTY FROM THE GULF. RESIDENTS OF THE WATCH AND WARNING AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING AND SEVERE WEATHER THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:30 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 730 AM CDT FRI JUN 16 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 1000 AM CDT... AT 730 AM CDT...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN STRETCHED FROM MONTGOMERY SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE WEST PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE CONTINUING ANOTHER 125 MILES INTO THE GULF. THE BAND IS STATIONARY ALLOWING FOR FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS. A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND GULF FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY SOUTH 150 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, 5:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 4 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.