Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1990, 4:37 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1990, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe 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
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 022138 SVRMOB ALC099-022245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 437 PM CDT MON JUL 2 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MONROE COUNTY AT 435 PM CDT THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF BEATRICE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR BEATRICE WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES AND APPROACH PETERMAN WITHIN 45 MINUTES. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. 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, Jul 2, 2:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 222 PM CDT MON JUL 2 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT... THE MARINE WARNING FOR THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS EXPIRED AT 215 PM. ADDITIONAL WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. AT 217 PM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE WESTERN SHORE OF MOBILE BAY IN MOBILE COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GULF SHORES ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT...JUST A SLIGHT SOUTHWARD DRIFT. ANOTHER SCATTERED AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS DEVELOPING ACROSS CLARKE...CONECUH...MONROE AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES OF ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FURTHER TO THE NORTH WILL AFFECT THESE COUNTIES LATER IN THE AFTERNOON. RESIDENTvS OF ALL SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
FLZ001>004-022030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT MON JUL 02 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION...BETWEEN MOBILE AND FOLEY...NEAR CHATTAHOOCHEE...AND SCATTERED BETWEEN BREWTON AND DOTHAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS REDUCING VISIBILITY AND CREATING BRIEF FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS ...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE HAIL...AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS THE ADDITIONAL ROUGH SEAS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS ...AND KEEP ABREAST OF WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE SEVERE THUNDER- STORM WATCH PERIOD.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:39 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
FLZ001>004-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 335 PM CDT MON JUL 02 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE SCATTERED OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS...AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED BETWEEN BREWTON AND DOTHAN... AND BETWEEN PANAMA CITY AND TALLAHASSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINS... BRIEF FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...GUSTY WINDS._..FREQUENT LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE HAIL...AND ROUGH SEAS FOR MARINE INTERESTS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS. KEEP ABREAST OF CURRENT WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:53 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-022300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 352 PM CDT MON JUL 2 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 800 PM... THE MOBILE RADAR AT 350 PM INDICATED A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS AROUND THE MOBILE AREA WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS CONECUH AND MONROE COUNTIES...AND THEN A LARGE AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL ALABAMA MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST-CENTRAL ALABAMA WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO CLARKE...MONROE AND CONECUH COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. IT IS LIKELY THAT WARNINGS WILL BE |REQUIRED FOR PORTIONS OF THOSE COUNTIES. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Elmore | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 68 min |
| Jul 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 43 min |
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.