Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 25, 1990, 6:32 AM CST for Lee County, Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 1990, 6:32 AM CST (12:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 1990, 7:15 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, AL, Macon 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KMGM 251235
SVRMGM
ALC081-087-251315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
632 AM CST THU JAN 25 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...LEE...MACON
AT 6 30 AM CST WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR OPELIKA SOUTHWARD TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
TUSKEGEE. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 50 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, Jan 25, 3:36 AM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
ALC003-025-035-053-097-099-129-MSC039-041-045-047-059-131-251100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 337 AM CST THU JAN 25 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 6 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 8 AM CST... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA... AT 330 AM CST RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WITH SCATTERED EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM EASTERN CLARKE COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA TO CENTRAL GEORGE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THEN TO JUST EAST OF BILOXI MISSISSIPPI THEN SOUTHWEST OVER THE COASTAL WATERS TO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE AREA WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS FROM NEAR LUCEDALE MISSISSIPPI TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WIGGINS MISSISSIPPI. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT HOURS. BRIEF FLOODING OF LOWLYING AREAS AND STREETS ARE POSSIBLE AS THE STRONGER STORMS MOVES SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE REGION FOR THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jan 25, 3:42 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
FLZ002>004-251030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 335 AM CST THU JAN 25 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CST FOR ESCAMBIA ...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AT 330 AM CST...A BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHEAT MISS- ISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM BELLE CHASSE LOUISIANA TO BILOXI MISSISSIPPI TO CITRONELLE AND MILLERS FERRY ALABAMA. ELSEWHERE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE LOWER APALACHICOLA RIVER DELTA...EXTENDING SOUTHWEST OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OUT TO 75 MILES. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. INDIVIUAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTH- EAST.
Special weather statement, Jan 25, 4:37 AM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
FLZ002>004-251130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 435 AM CST THU JAN 25 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CST FOR ESCAMBIA ...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AT 430 AM CST...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...EXTENDING INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS EXTENDS FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY TO MOBILE TO BURAS LOUISIANA. ELSEWHERE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER THE APALACHICOLA RIVER DELTA...EXTENDING SOUTHWEST OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OUT TO 75 MILES. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. INDIVIUAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTH- EAST.
Special weather statement, Jan 25, 5:25 AM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ013-251300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 526 AM CST THU JAN 25 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 6 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA... AT 525 AM CST SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF THE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR EVERGREEN ALABAMA TO BAY MINETTE THEN SOUTHWEST TO THE WESTERN END OF DAUPHIN ISLAND THEN INTO THE COASTAL SOUTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA NEAR BOOTHVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM WEST OF EVERGREEN TO JUST NORTH OF BAY MINETTE. THE AREA WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH WITH INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER FOR THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS AS THIS STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. BRIAEF FLOODING OF LOWLYING AREAS AND STREETS ARE POSSIBLE AS THE STORMS PAST THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jan 25, 5:43 AM CST, 49 minutes before
FLZ002>004-251130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 535 AM CST THU JAN 25 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CST FOR ESCAMBIA ...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AT 530 AM CST...A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM MONTGOMERY ALABAMA SOUTHWESTWARD OVER THE NORTHERN TIP OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA TO THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.. A 75-MILES-WIDE BAND OF LIGHT RAIN TRAILED THE LINE OF STORMS TO THE NORTHWEST. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WITHIN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE WILL BE MOV[ING INTO AND THROUGH THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 5:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 49 min |
| Jan 25, 6:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock, Pike | 51 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.