Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 1989, 8:51 PM CST for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 8, 1989, 8:51 PM CST (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 1989, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dallas County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 9:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Dallas, AL | |
| Nov 8, 9:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Dallas, AL | |
| Nov 8, 9:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Dallas, AL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 437 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMGM 090253
SVRMGM
ALC047-090400-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
851 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...DALLAS
AT 850 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN DALLAS COUNTY
NEAR ORRVILLE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR.
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, Nov 8, 5:41 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 535 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR ESCAMBIA... SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...WASHINGTON...HOLMES AND BAY COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 530 PM CST...A BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS SRRETCHED FROM THE APALACHICOLA RIVER SOUTHWEST ACROSS MUCH OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE CONTINUING INTO THE GULF AND OVER TO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE HEAVIER RAIN EXTENDED FROM SEAGROVE BEACH IN SOUTH WALTON COUNTY SOUTHEAST TO A POINT 40 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS.. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND FLOODING OF STREETS...POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 6:37 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 635 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR ESCAMBIA... SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...WASHINGTON...HOLMES AND BAY COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 630 PM CST...A BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS SRRETCHED FROM THE APALACHICOLA RIVER SOUTHWEST ACROSS MUCH OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE CONTINUING INTO THE GULF TO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS OVER THE GULF FROM PANAMA CITY WEST TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF MOBILE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN IS CURRENTLY OFFSHORE THE POTENTIAL STILL EXISTS FOR FLOODING OF .STREETS...POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS THIS EVENING. MODERATE RAIN DOES CONTINUE OVER MANY AREAS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM HOLMES COUNTY SOUTH TO PANAMA CITY.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 7:32 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 735 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR ESCAMBIA... SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...WASHINGTON...HOLMES AND BAY COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 730 PM CST...A BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS SRRETCHED FROM THE APALACHICOLA RIVER SOUTHWEST ACROSS MUCH OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE CONTINUING INTO THE GULF 75 MILES SOUTH OF MOBILE. THE HEAVIER RAIN EXTENDED FROM PANAMA CITY WEST TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA FROM HATTIE_SBURG NORTHEAST TO GREENE COUNTY ALABAMA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 7:45 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 745 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 10 PM... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA... WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT 740 PM SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LINDEN IN MARENGO COUNTY ALABAMA TO HATTIESBURG THEN SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTH CHOCTAW COUNTY ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE AREA WAS WEAKENING AS IT MOVES EAST INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS FOR THE POSSIBLITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AS CONDITIONS REMAIN IN PLACE TO TRIGGER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA HAS BEEN REPORTED THIS EVENING AND RUN OFF HAS OCCURRED ON MOST STREETS AND ROADS IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 8:47 PM CST, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 835 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR ESCAMBIA... SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA...WALTON...WASHINGTON...HOLMES AND BAY COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 830 PM CST...A BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS SRRETCHED FROM THE APALACHICOLA RIVER SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE CONTINUING INTO THE GULF 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PENSACOLA. THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS OFFSHORE SOUTH OF PANAMA CITY AND FT WALTON BEACH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM MARENGO COUNTY ALABAMA SOUTHWEST TO STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Nov 8, 8:48 PM CST, 3 minutes before
ATTN SELS
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
845 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989
TIME EVENT
835 PM CST MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY FULTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
FULTON LOCATED IN NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY.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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.