Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1989, 7:47 PM CDT for Coosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1989, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1989, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coosa 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 2344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KMGM 230049
TORMGM
ALC037-230145-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
747 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...COOSA
AT 745 PM CDT MONTGOMERY RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR
LAKE MITCHEL MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
O^R CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, May 22, 2:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 240 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989 ...THUDERSTORMS FIRING UP ALONG THE GULF COAST... AT 235 PM MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CHATOM ALABAMA SOUTHWESTWARD TO LEAKESVILE MISSISSIPPI AND CONTINUING TO GULFPORT. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS THE STATE LINE INTO NORTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO THE CITRONELLE AREA AROUND 300 PM. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN HATTIESBURG AND LAUREL MISSISSIPPI AND NEAR BAY MINETTE ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SM;ALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, May 22, 3:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 330 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALABAMA HEAD FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 325 PM CDT...LARGE CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE MOVING ACROSS MOBILE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THEY EXTENDED WEST INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTH ESCAMBIA COUNTY OF FLORIDA AROUND OR SHORTLY AFTER 4 PM. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE NORTH PORTIONS OF SANTA ROSA AND OKALOOSA COUNTIES OF FLORIDA. MOVEMENTS WERE TOWARD THE EAST ABOUT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 22, 4:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 400 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TRACKING EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 355 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED FROM GROVE HILL ALABAMA TO BAY MINETTE AND THEN SOUTHWEST TO MOBILE AND PASCAGOULA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS CLARKE... NORTHERN BALDWIN AND MOBILE COUTIES. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE INTO MONROE...CONECUH AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES BEFORE 6 PM. EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THE LINE MOVES ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, May 22, 4:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 445 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989 A LARGE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EASTWARD FROM SANTA ROSA INTO OKALOOSA COUNTY...NORTHWEST OF CRESTVIEW. A DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY AND INTO SANTA ROSA COUNTY. THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM BREWTON ALABAMA SOUTHWEST TO FOLEY IN BALDWIN COUNTY OF ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATING VERY HEAY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. RESIDENTS OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...AND OKALOOSA COUMTIES OF FLORIDA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSILBLE SEVERE WEATHER UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS OR WEAKEN.
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 540 PM CDT MON MAY 22 1989 SEVERAL LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STORMS WERE PART OF A THUNDERSTORM LINE THAT EXTENDED SOUTH THROUGH SOUTHERN ALABAMA TO MUNSON...IN NORTHEAST SANTA ROSA COUNTY OF FLORIDA...THEN SOUTHWEST ACROSS MILTON TO PENSACOLA. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE VERY STRONG AND WERE INDICATING POSSIBLE HAIL. PERSONS IN SANTA ROSA AND OKALOOSA COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. IF DAMAGING WINDS...OR LARGE HAIL...SHOULD OCCUR REPORT THE EVENT TO THE NEAREST COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSES OFFICE FOR RELAY TO THE WEATER SERVICE.
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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.