Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1990, 7:33 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1990, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 040033 SVRMOB ALC097-040130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 733 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY AT 732 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 5 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF THE MOBILE AIRPORT MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 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 BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jun 3, 4:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
FLZ001>004-032230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 AT 430 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT BALDWIN COUNTY OF ALABAMA. THE LINE EXTENDED SOUTHWEST FROM DOTHAN ALABAMA ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALVES OF OKALOOSA...SANTA ROSA...AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES IN FLORIDA... TO NEAR FAIRHOPE AND LOXLEY IN ALABAMA. THESE STORMS INDICATD VERY STRONG INTENSITIES OF RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. MOVEMENTS WERE SOUTHEASTERLY 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE GULF FROM NORTHWEST FLORIDA TO MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
FLZ001>004-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 535 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 AT 530 PM CDT...CLUSTERS AND SHORT LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE GULF COASTAL STATES FROM MISSISSIPPI TO NORTHWEST FLORIDA. IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAINS...WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...PLUS FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED NEAR CRESTVIEW AN8D IN A SHORT LINE FROM MILTON TO PENSACOLA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
ALZ013-016-MSZ014-013-040115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 612 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 605 PM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH ACROSS SEVERAL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER GREEN...GEORGE AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS AND MOVE INTO MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES OF ALABAMA. WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS...RESIDENTS CAN EeXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN WEAKENING BY 900 PM.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.