Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 1990, 1:35 PM CST for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 1990, 1:35 PM CST (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 1990, 2:35 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 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 KMGM 231933 SVRMGM ALC013-232035- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 135 PM CST SUN DEC 23 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...BUTLER COUNTY AT 130 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GREENVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Dec 23, 10:44 AM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
FLZ001>004-231730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1035 AM CST SUN DEC 23 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST... AT 1030 AM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM NEAR LINDEN IN MARENGO COUNTY ALABAMA SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTHWEST OF MOBILE AND ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND INTO THE CHANDELEUR ISLANDS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COAST. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Dec 23, 10:48 AM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-231745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1048 AM CST SUN DEC 23 1990 ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS EASTWARD TO MOBILE BAY UNTIL 1230 PM... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR ALL SOUTHWEST ALABAMAA COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM... AT 1045 AM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY ALABAMA SOUTHWEST ACROSS CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI THEN SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF BEYOND 40 MILES. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 10 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE MOST INTENSE PART OF THE LINE WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS OF MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A STRONGER STRUCTURE IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Local storm report, Dec 23, 11:53 AM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1150 AM CST SUN DEC 23 1990
TIME EVENT
1030 AM JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI SO REPORTED POWER LINES
DOWN IN GAUTIER..%.12 MILES EAST OF OCEAN SPRINGS.Special weather statement, Dec 23, 12:13 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-231915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1213 PM CST SUN DEC 23 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 400 PM CST... ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS EAST TO MOBILE BAY UNTILL 1230 PM...AND WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED EASTWARD INTO THE REMAINDER OF THE ALABAMA COASTAL WATERS... AT 1210P PM THE MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FRONORTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE MOBILE AIRPORT AND SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF BEYOND 40 MILES. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REST OF MOBILE COUNTY AND INTO BALDWIN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST ALONG THE LINE AT 35 MPH. THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE AS THE LINE PROGRESSES ACROSS THE AREA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFAFLL AND POSSIBLE HAIL WILL CONTINUE WITH THIS LINE. RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Dec 23, 12:29 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
FLZ001>004-231930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1225 PM CST SUN DEC 23 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA... WALTON AND HOLMES. AT 1230 PM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY ALABAMA SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE MOBILE AREA AND OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE LINE WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTH ESCAMBIA COUNTY OF FLORIDA SOO]N AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ON TOWARDS MILTON AND PENSACOLA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH VERY ROUGH SEAS OVER MARINE AREAS.
Special weather statement, Dec 23, 1:28 PM CST, 7 minutes before
FLZ001>004-232030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 125 PM CST SUN DEC 23 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA... WALTON AND HOLMES. AT 130 PM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM MONTGOMERY ALABAMA SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE MOBILE AREA THEN OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE LINE WAS MOVING INTO NORTH ESCAMBIA COUNTY OF FLORIDA AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ON TOWARDS MILTON AND PENSACOLA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH VERY ROUGH SEAS OVER MARINE AREAS.
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.