Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Jul 8, 1990, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)

Expired

Jul 8, 1990, 7:15 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Barbour 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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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
625 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
 
   ...BARBOUR COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ALONG HIGHWAY 431 IN
SOUTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS HAIL WAS
MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWARD TOWARD EUFAULA AND CLAYTON.
 
 
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.

In the hours before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
235 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990

...VERY LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN ESCAMIBA...SANTA ROSA...
AND OKALOOSA COUNTIES OF FLORIDA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
ALABAMA...   THESE LARGE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...ALONG WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SOME HAIL.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHTEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTH
ALABAMA...AND ALSO THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

MOVEMENT OF ALL STORMS WAS VERY SLOWLY TO THE WEST.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
245 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990

...WHO SET THE THERMOSTAT SO HIGH...

WHEN THE TEMPERATURE REACHED THE UPPER 90S THIS AFTERNOON NATURES
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM STARTED UP IN THE FORM OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORMS BRINGING RELEIF FROM THE HEAT TO MANY AREAS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE A NATURAL AFTERNOON OCCURRENCE ALONG THE GULF COAST
AND DO BRING RELIEF FROM THE HEAT...BUT THEY CAN BE DANGEROUS...DUE
PRIMARILY TO THE LIGHTNING THEY PRODUCE...THEY MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...HEVY DOWN POURS...AND SMALL HAIL.

AT 240 PM CDT THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS MOSTLY
SOUVTH OF A BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA TO MONTGOMERY ALABAMA LINE AND NORTH
OF INTERSTATE 10. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH.

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.