Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1990, 5:26 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1990, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1990, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 032228 SVRMOB ALC003-032330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 526 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...WESTERN BALDWIN COUNTY MOBILE RADAR AT 525 PM CDT SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF FAIRHOPE IN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA. THE STORM WAS MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE CROSSING MOBILE BAY WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES WEST OF FAIRHOPE. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 3, 2:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
FLZ001>004-031930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 200 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG COASTAL BAY AND WALTON COUNTIES... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE ALONG THE COAST FROM NEAR PANAMA CITY AND ALONG THE COAST AND COASTAL WATERS TO NEAR FREEPORT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR...AND HAD INCREASED IN COVERAGE DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS CREATING REDUCED VISIBILITY AND SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS WHEN THE STORMS ARE IN THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
FLZ001>004-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT MON JUL 02 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER COASTAL WALTON AND BAY COUNTIES... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE ALONG THE COAST AND COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN PANAMA CITY AND DESTIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS WERE OVER COASTAL WALTON COUNTY...AND WERE MOVING WEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ...AND FROM NORTH OF APALACHICOLA INTO SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS... GUSTY WINDS 35 TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL... AND SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THESE CONDITIONS WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
ALZ016-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 425 PM CDT MON JUL 2 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING WEST INTO EASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY... MOBILE RADAR AT 420 PM CDT SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE EASTERN PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA FROM NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY MAY EXPERIENCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... BRIEF STREET FLOODING... AND THE POSSBILE OF SMALL HAIL AS THESE STORMS MOVES WEST ACROSS THE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
ALZ016-032330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECT DATE TIME GROUP... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 425 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING WEST INTO EASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY... MOBILE RADAR AT 420 PM CDT SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE EASTERN PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA FROM NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY MAY EXPERIENCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... BRIEF STREET FLOODING... AND THE POSSBILE OF SMALL HAIL AS THESE STORMS MOVES WEST ACROSS THE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:21 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
FLZ001>004-032225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 525 PM CDT MON JUL 03 1990 ...A TORNADO WARNINGS IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR THE SOUTH PORTIONS OF SANTA ROSA AND ESCAMBIA CPUNTIES OF FLORIDA. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...EXTENDED FROM SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA EAST ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS TO THE APALACHICOLA RIVER. A LONE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTH COVINGTON COUNTY OF ALABAMA. STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA MOVING TOWARD MOBILE BAY. A SLIGHT DECREASE IN THUNDERSTORM INTENSITY WAS NOTED DURING THE PAST HOUR. MOVEMENTS WERE TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Nearby
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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.