Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1989, 2:12 PM CDT for Bullock County, Lee County, Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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
- Jun 5, 1989, 2:12 PM CDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1989, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullock County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Macon, AL | |
| Jun 5, 2:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Macon, AL | |
| Jun 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Bullock, AL | |
| Jun 5, 2:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Lee, 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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ALC011-081-087-052000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
212 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...BULLOCK...LEE...MACON
AT 2 10PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
WESTERN LEE COUNTY THROUGH THE TUSKEGEE AREA ON SOUTHWARD INTO BULLOCK
COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF UNION SPRINGS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 3O MPH. THIS LINE HAS PRODUCED STRONG WINDS
AS IT MOVED THROUGH MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLYV SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Jun 5, 11:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1135 AM CDT MON JNU 5 1989 AT 1130 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. MOST OF THE HEAVIER RAIN WAS CONCENTRATED IN A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NAVARRE BEACH SOUTHEAST 50 MILES INTO THE GULF. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE COASTAL WATERS AND MOVE ONSHORE THEY WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND WATERSPOUTS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE AREA SHOOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE READY TO FING A PLACE OF SAFETY IF NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1230 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 407 IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 1215 PM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS COVERING A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND PRODUCING SOME HEAVY RAINFALL. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OVER WESTERN PEARL RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND CENTRAL CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BUT CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATH}ER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1230 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 407 IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 1215 PM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS COVERING A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND PRODUCING SOME HEAVY RAINFALL. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OVER WESTERN PEARL RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND CENTRAL CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BUT CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1235 PM CDT MON JNU 5 1989 AT 1230 PM CDT...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL WATERS SOUTH OF FT WALTON BEACH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE WATERSPOUTS AS THEY MOVE ONSHORE BETWEEN FT WALTON BEACH AND PANAMA CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER SOUTH ALABAMA EAST OF ANDALUSIA AND IN A BROKEN BAND NORTH AND WEST OF MOBILE. THE THUNDERSTROMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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.