Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 1990, 7:07 AM CST for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 1990, 7:07 AM CST (13:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 1990, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barbour County, AL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:40 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Barbour, AL |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KMGM 221310 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC005-067-069-221415-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
707 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...BARBOUR...HENRY...HOUSTON
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY RADAR FROM NEAR
CLAYTON TO NEWVILLE TO JUST SOUTH OF DOTHAN MOVING EAST AT 45 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, Feb 22, 1:32 AM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ013-220930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 130 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 AT 115 AM MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS FROM NEAR MERIDAN MISSISSIPPI TO BILOXI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AS THIS LINE OF STORMS PASS WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR AND 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE. BY 300 AM THE LINE OF STORMS SHOULD BE FROM NEAR CHATOM ALABAMA TO MOBILE TO FORT MORGAN.
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 2:44 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
FLZ002-220930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 245 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNIGH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400AM CST FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A LINE OF VERY SRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING EASTWARD THROUGH BALDWIN COUNTY OF ALABAMA TOWARD THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE WILL PRODUCE VERY STRONG...POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY PASS. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Feb 22, 3:04 AM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
ATTN SELS
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
300 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990
TIME EVENT
0245C THUNDERSTORM WINDS DOWNED TREES BLOCKING ALABAMA 59
SOUTH OF I-65 AND NORTH OF STOCKTON IN BALDWIN COUNTY
ALABAMA. BALDWIN COUNTY UNIT TRAPPED BY TREES. REPORTED
BY BALDWIN COUNTY EMA. (SVR MOB)Special weather statement, Feb 22, 3:40 AM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
FLZ002-221030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 340 AM CST THU FEB 22 1990 ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNIGH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400AM CST FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. AT 330AM CST...A SOLID LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ESTENDED SOUTH FROM ALABAMA THROUGH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA...ACROSS PENSACOLA... AND INTO THE GULF 80 MILES. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH AND WAS DUMPING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND ROUGH WATER CONDITIONS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED IN A RAIN AREA THAT HAD MOVED AS FAR EAST AS CRESTVIEW FLORIDA AND MONTGOMERY ALABAMA. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS GWILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 6:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee, Dale | 61 min |
| Feb 22, 6:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Houston | 61 min |
| Feb 22, 7:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Henry, Houston | 68 min |
| Feb 22, 7:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Macon | 65 min |
| Feb 22, 7:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lee | 61 min |
| Feb 22, 8:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Chambers | 68 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.