Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1989, 3:35 PM CDT for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1989, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1989, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1521 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KMGM 142038
SVRMGM
ALC017-142130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
335 PM CDT WED JUN 14 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...CHAMBERS
AT 235 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
SOUTHWEST AND NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH.
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 QUICKLY 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 14, 11:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1110 AM CDT WED JUN 14 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES... AT 1105 AM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS LIGHT TO MODERATE WITH ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY OF MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TAKE NECEASSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... HEAVY RAINFALL... AND SMALL SIZE HAIL AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. > LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO, COMMERICAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS WEATHER PROBLEM AS IT MOVES ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 12:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1235 PM CDT WED JUN 14 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THIS AFTERNOON WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE...AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AT 1230 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE CLARKE AND MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TAKE NECEASSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN SE8VERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT....CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1235 PM CDT WED JUN 14 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THIS AFTERNOON WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE...AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AT 1230 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ALONG THE CLARKE MONROE COUNTY LINE IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TAKE NECEASSARY PDRECAUTIONS WHEN SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 130 PM CDT WED JUN 14 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THIS AFTERNOON WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE...AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AT 115 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MPH. NONE OF THESE STORMS WERE SEVERE...HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TAKE NECEASSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:40 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 240 PM CDT WED JUN 14 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM THIS EVENING FOR ALL SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE...AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AT 230 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MPH. NONE OF THESE STORMS WERE SEVERE...HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS GAND TAKE NECEASSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED.
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.