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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 1989, 8:20 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 8, 1989, 8:20 AM CST (14:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 1989, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 13.0
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, Nov 8, 2:46 AM CST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 AM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... AT 230 AM CST...LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDER- STORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE OVER THE THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTHERN ALABAMA...AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...AND THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL WATERS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS WAS OVER A 15 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF DOTHAN ALABAMA SOUTHWEST ACROSS DE FUNIAK SPRINGS TO JUST EAST OF THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION...AND ALSO IN ALABAMA SCATTERED BETWEEN MOBILE AND MONTGOMERY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STxRIKES...AND SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 3:44 AM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 335 AM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... AT 330 AM CST...LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN MIXED WITH SCATTERED THUNDER- STORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE OVER THE THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTHERN ALABAMA...AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...AND THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL WATERS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE MAIN CONCENTRATION OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS WAS OVER SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES...AND BETWEEN FORT WALTON AND DEFUNIAK SPRINGS...AND IN ALABAMA LARGE CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN MOBILE AND MONTGOMERY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 3:48 AM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 350 AM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING INLAND OVER SOUTHESAT MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 345 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND A BAND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER INTERIOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR LUCEDALE MISSISSIPPI TO URIAH ALABAMA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT NEAR 25 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL IN THIS AREA FOR SEVERAL HOURS. FLOODING OF STREETS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS LIKELY. STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL ENDED IN THE COASTAL AREA SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT AFTER DUMPING MORE THAN 5 INCHES IN SOME AREAS YESTERDAY. RUNOFF MAY BE SLOW IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND CAUTION IS ADVISED WHEN DRIVING THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 5:54 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Nov 8, 7:47 AM CST, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 735 AM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS MORNING FOR THE NORTHERN HALVES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...AND WALTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... AT 730 AM CST...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE OVER THE NORTH HALF OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...AND OKALOOSA...AND WALTON COUNTIES OF FLORIDA. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE PATCHES OF RAIN MIXED WITH THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OVER THE NORTH SECTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTH ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES... AND FLOODING OF STREETS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Nov 8, 5:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Houston | 41 min |
| Nov 8, 6:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee, Covington | 42 min |
| Nov 8, 7:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Geneva | 55 min |
| Nov 8, 7:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Henry, Houston | 66 min |
| Nov 8, 9:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Houston | 46 min |
| Nov 8, 10:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coffee, Covington, Geneva | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 10:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Dale, Henry, Houston | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 10:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Geneva, Houston | 58 min |
| Nov 8, 1:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Houston | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 1:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Henry | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.