Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 21, 1989, 8:24 AM CST for Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 21, 1989, 8:24 AM CST (14:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 1989, 9:06 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dale 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMGM 211427
TORMGM
ALC045-211515-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
824 AM CST TUE MAR 21 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...DALE
AT 9 25PM CST...PERSONELL AT FT. RUCKER INDICATED A TORNADO AT
PATTERSON FIELD 3 MILES SOUTH OF FT RUCKER MOVING TOWARD THE EAST
NORTHEAST AT 30MPH. RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED AT THUNDERSTORM IN
THAT AREA.
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...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas | 69 min |
| Mar 20, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coosa | 56 min |
| Mar 20, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 56 min |
| Mar 20, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 59 min |
| Mar 20, 9:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 57 min |
| Mar 21, 4:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| Mar 21, 5:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 64 min |
| Mar 21, 6:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour, Pike | 55 min |
| Mar 21, 7:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 68 min |
| Mar 21, 8:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Henry, Houston | 56 min |
| Mar 21, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Houston | 50 min |
| Mar 21, 10:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 42 min |
| Mar 21, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 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.