Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1989, 1:11 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min. 2 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 19, 1989, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1989, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston 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 19, 1:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Houston, AL | |
| Jun 19, 1:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Houston, 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 2023 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KMGM 191813
SVRMGM
ALC069-191915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
111 PM CDT MON JUN 19 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...HOUSTON
AT 1 10PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF
DOTHAN MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WAS ON THE ALABAMA FLORIDA BORDER SOUTH OF DOTHAN ALSO
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNIVNG...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 19, 11:46 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1135 AM CDT MON JUN 19 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME IN CLUSTERS AND WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTH ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND THE ADJOINING GULF TO 100 MILES OFFSHORE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE OVER OKALOOSA AND WALTON COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...AND BETWEEN APALACHICOLA AND DOTHAN ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCI8NG HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAUSING FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS...GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND ROUGH SEAS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Elmore, Montgomery | 115 min |
| Jun 19, 6:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 9:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa | 117 min |
| Jun 19, 11:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 117 min |
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.