Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1989, 6:32 PM CST for Elmore County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 5, 1989, 6:32 PM CST (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1989, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elmore County, AL, Tallapoosa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:53 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Tallapoosa, 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 26.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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ALC051-123-060130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
632 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...EASTERN ELMORE...TALLAPOOSA
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED ON MONTGOMERY'S WEATHER RADAR IN
EASTERN ELMORE COUNTY JUST NORTH OF TALLASSEE.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
LIKELY CROSS LAKE MARTIN AND MARTIN DAM AREA BY 1845 CST. STRONG WINDS
AND DAMAGING HAIL ARE POSSIBLE.
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, Mar 5, 3:28 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 325 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 24 IN EFFECT AT 330 PM FOR ESCAMBIA... CONECUH AND MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23. AT 320 PM MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR BIRMINGHAM TO MONROEVILLE ALABAMA TO PENSACOLA FLORIDA. HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED 5 MILES EAST OF ATMORE ALABAMA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. A SECONDARY LINE OF THUNDERSHOWERS HAS DEVELOPED NORTH AND SOUTH ACROSS MOBILE COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 3:40 PM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 345 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 AT 330 PM CST...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RAN NORTH TO SOUTH FROM ALABAMA THROUGH ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA AND PENSACOLA... THEN FAR INTO THE GULF. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY AND NEAR THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEASTERLY 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE THE LINE MOVED EASTWARD 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. SHORT PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL MARK THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOLLOWED THE LINE AND WERE OCCURRING IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTH OVER THE GULF.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 4:34 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 AT 430 PM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED NORTH TO SOUTH FROM DALLAS COUNTY ALABAMA THROUGH SANTA ROSA COUNTY FLORIDA AND CONTINUED INTO THE GULF 80 MILES SOUTH OF NAVARRE BEACH. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PREIODS OF HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. OT HER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF TO A POINT 110 MILES SOUTH OF PASCAGOULA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 4:45 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 445 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 24 IN EFFECT FOR ESCAMBIA...CONECUH AND MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 10 PM... AT 435 PM MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MILTON FLORIDA. IT WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE IN EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALABAMA BY 510 PM. IT WAS IN A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY TO BREWTON ALABAMA TO PENSACOLA FLORIDA AND 100 MILES SOUTH INTO THE GULF. ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATMORE ALABAMA TO GULF SHORES AND 125 MILES SOUTH INTO THE GULF. HEAVY RAINFALL WA$S INDICATED NEAR GULF SHORES.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 5:34 PM CST, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 535 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 AT 530 PM CST...TWO LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NORTH TO SOUTH OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. ONE LINE STRETCHED FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY SOUTH ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE BETWEEN MILTON AND CRESTVIEW AND CONTINUED INTO THE GULF 60 MILES SOUTH OF NAVARRE BEACH. THE OTHER LINE EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF PENSACOLA ACROSS SOUTHWEST ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA CONTINUING INTO THE GULF 100 MILES SOUTH OF MOBILE. THESE LINES MAY CAUSE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASsTAL WATERS AT 20 MILESAN HOUR...WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 6:31 PM CST, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 630 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989 AT 630 PM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM THE ALABAMA BORDER NORTH OF MILTON SOUTHWEST THROUGH PENSACOLA AND CONTINUED INTO THE GULF ANOTHER 75 MILES. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE MAY CAUSE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. A FEW OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE AHEAD OF THE LINE FROM MONTGOMERY SOUTH TO FT WALTON BEACH AND INTO THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 7:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.