Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

May 21, 1990, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)

Expired

May 21, 1990, 3:30 PM CDT

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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ALC025-129-212030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
239 PM CDT MON MAY 21 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CLARKE COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 234 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GROVE HILL TO 10 MILES WEST OF CHATOM MOVING
TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
CLARKE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED TREES DOWN ACROSS POWER LINES
JUST NORTHWEST OF GROVE HILL A FEW MINUTES AGO.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR B;USINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

In the hours before

ATTN SELS
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
930 AM CDT MON MAY 21 1990

DELAYED STORM REPORT....

GEORGE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI CD REPORTED THAT AT 830 PM CDT SUNDAY
MAY 21ST AT THE CENTRAL :COMMUNITY 3 MILES WEST OF LUCEDALE...
TREES BLOWN DOWN...STORAGE BUILDING DESTROYED AND FENCE BLOWN DOWN.

REPORTED AS POSSIBLE TORNADO BUT LIKELY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-212000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
155 PM CDT MON MAY 21 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 294 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PERRY
AND GREENE COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 500 PM... ...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 295 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR ALL
COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

AT 150 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR
MONTGOMERY TO NEAR WHATLEY IN CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WHA
MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED EARLIER IN CENTRAL CLARKE COUNTY.

ANOTHER LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. IT WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR CRANDALL TO SUMRALL TO
SOUTH OF MCCOMB. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
ELLISVILLE IN JONES COUNTY.

A WIND GUST LINE MAY STILL BE 10 TO 15 MILES AHEAD OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH WERE
REPORTED EARLIER.

PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER CONSCIOUS THIS
AFTERNOON AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.