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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1989, 12:57 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1989, 12:57 PM CDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1989, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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, 6.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KMOB 041758
TORMOB
ALC003-041830-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1257 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
...SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN
AT 1250 PM THE GULF SHORES POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
NEAR THE GULF STATE PARK MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. THE BALDWIN COUNTY
911 SYSTEM REPORTED THE FUNNEL CLOUD HAD BECOME A TORNADO AND WAS
STILL MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROU}ND 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.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, Jul 4, 9:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 930 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1989 ...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 930 AM CDT...CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND OFF THE COAST FROM LOUISIANA EAST OF NEW ORLEANS EAST TO NEAR PANAMA CITY FLORIDA. THESE STORMS EXTENDED INLAND SOME 50 TO 75 MILES INLAND. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AND NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...AND FOR BOATERS THE ROUGH SEAS...MAY ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM IS APPROACHING YOU...PERSONS OUTDOORS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AND SWIMMERS SHOULD GET OUT OF TUHE WATER. REMEMBER... LIGHTNING IS THE BIGGEST WEATHER RELATED KILLER.
Local storm report, Jul 4, 9:54 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 945 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1989 ...DELAYED STORM REPORT... A WATERSPOUT FLIPPED OVER A 30 FOOT PONTOON TYPE HOUSEBOAT. IN ESCAMBIA BAY ON MONDAY JULY 3 1989 AROUND 11 AM. ESCAMBIA BAY BORDERS SANTA ROSA COUNTY OF FLORIDA. A TORNADO WARNING WAS IN EFFECT FROM 11 TILL NOON FOR SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY. A MAN WAS THROWN THROUGH THE BOAT WINDSHIELD. WIFE AND CHILD ALSO SUFFERED CUTS AND BRUISErS AND ALL SWAM TO SAFETY.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 10:14 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1015 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1989 ...THUNDERSHOWERS THREATEN JULY 4TH PICNICS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA GULF COAST... AT 1000 AM CDT A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN COVERED MOST OF THE ALABAMA MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY...BUT WILL DEMINISH BY EARLY EVENING. THOSE PEOPLE PLANING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TODAY SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE QUICK SHELTER FROM LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS. REMEMBER LIGHTNING KILLS MORE PEOPLE EACH YEAR THAN TORNADOS OR HURRICANES. IF YOU PLAN A BOATING TRIP DO NOT VENTURE FAR FROM SAFE HARBOUR. THIS IS THE 5TH RAINY 4TH OF JULY THIS DECADE IN MOBILE.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 10:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1030 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1989 ...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 1030 AM CDT...CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND OFF THE COAST FROM MISSISSIPPI EAST TO THE APALACHICOLA RIVER IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THESE STORMS EXTENDED INLAND SOME 50 TO 75 MILES INLAND. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AND NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...AND FOR BOATERS THE ROUGH SEAS...MAY ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM IS APPROACHING YOU...PERSONS OUTDOORS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AND SWIMMERS SHOULD GET OUT OF THE WATER. REMEMBER... LIGHTNING IS THE BIGGEST WEATHER RELATED KILLER.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1130 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1989 ...RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA... AT 1130 AM CDT...CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS COVERED THE SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI...SOUTH ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA...AND THE ADJACENT GULF OF MEXICO. THEY WERE MOVING BETWEEN EAST AND NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...AND FOR BOATERS THE ROUGH SEAS...MAY ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM IS APPROACHING YOU...PERSONS OUTDOORS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AND SWIMMERS SHOULD GET OUT OF THE WATER. REMEMBER... LIGHTNING IS THE BIGGEST WEATHER RELATED KILLER.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 12:31 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1230 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1989 AT 1215 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN A 30 MILE WIDE BAND FROM NEAR CAMDEN ALABAMA SOUTH THROUGH MONROE...CLARKE ...AND BALDWIN COUNTIES INTO THE GULF. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 20 MPH. REMEMBER LIGHTNING KILLS MORE PEOPLE EACH YEAR THAN TORNADOS OR HURRICANES. SHOWER ACTIVITY OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI HAD DIMINISHED SOME BUT SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUED TO DEVELOPE SOUTH OF A WAYNESBORO HATTTIEBURG LINE AND MOVE TO THE EASTO AT 20 MPH.
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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.