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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL

June 8, 1989Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1989, 10:17 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1989, 10:17 AM CDT (15:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1989, 10:45 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Baldwin 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2984 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.9
Supercell composite: 26.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 081519
TORMOB
ALC003-081545-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1017 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
          ...SOUTH CENTRAL BALDWIN
 
AND THE ADJOINING WATERS OF MOBILE BAY.
 
 
 
AT 1014 AM THE BALDWIN COUNTY EMA REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD IN MOBILE
BAY 2 MILES WEST OF FAIRHOPE AND A LOUD ROARING NOISE OVER SILVERHILL
 
ALABAMA.  THE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Houston	66 min
Jun 8, 9:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	29 min
Jun 8, 10:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	49 min
Jun 8, 11:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	36 min
Jun 8, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	49 min
Jun 8, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	47 min
Jun 8, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	44 min
Jun 8, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	45 min
Jun 8, 3:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	4 hr
Jun 8, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	27 min
Jun 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	45 min

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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.