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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL

November 8, 1989Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 1989, 2:13 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 1989, 2:13 PM CST (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 1989, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 47 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

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 1293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 13.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 082013
TORMOB
ALC003-082100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
213 PM CST WED NOV 8 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
          ...CENTRAL BALDWIN
 
AND WATERS OF MOBILE BAY.
 
AT 210 PM A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC AND INDICATED BY
RADAR EAST OF DOG RIVER POINT ON MOBILE BAY. THE WATERPOUT WAS MOVING
TO THE EASTNORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS THE I-10 BRIDGE OVER
MOBILE BAY DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
 
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
Nov 8, 5:34 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Houston	41 min
Nov 8, 6:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Coffee, Covington	42 min
Nov 8, 7:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Geneva	55 min
Nov 8, 7:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Henry, Houston	66 min
Nov 8, 8:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	55 min
Nov 8, 9:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Houston	46 min
Nov 8, 10:37 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Coffee, Covington, Geneva	3 hr
Nov 8, 10:37 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Dale, Henry, Houston	3 hr
Nov 8, 10:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Geneva, Houston	58 min
Nov 8, 1:44 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Houston	3 hr
Nov 8, 1:44 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Henry	3 hr

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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.