Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1990, 7:17 PM CST for Barbour County, Dale County, Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min. 3 reports 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
- Mar 16, 1990, 7:17 PM CST (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, AL, Dale County, AL, Henry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Barbour, AL | |
| Mar 16, 7:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Dale, AL | |
| Mar 16, 7:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Henry, 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 557 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMGM 170118
SVRMGM
ALC005-045-067-170215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
717 PM CST FRI MAR 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...BARBOUR...DALE...HENRY
WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST
OF EUFAULA SOUTHWARD TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF MIDLAND CITY MOVING SLOWLY
TOWARD THE EAST. THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
ALONG THE LINE AT 30 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
Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:45 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
230 PM CST FRI MAR 16 1990
TIME EVENT
MARCH 15 1990
415 PM ESCAMBIA COUNTY...PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR
MOLINO AND NORTH OF CANTONMENT BY SKWARN SPOTTER.
435 PM ESCAMBIA COUNTY... A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN ON HWY 97
SOUTHEAST OF ATMORE REPORTED BY CD.
MARCH 16 1990
830 AM ESCAMBIA COUNTY...A TREE AND FENCE WERE BLOWN DOWN
NEAR INTERSECTION OF SCENIC HWY AND HWY 90...OBSERVED
BY PNS MIC.
830 AM SANTA ROSA COUNTY...10 TO 15 TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN
6 ALONG ESCAMBIA BAY SOUTHEAST OF FLORIDATOWN...
OBSERVED BY PNS MIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 6:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Chambers, Lee, Tallapoosa | 119 min |
| Mar 16, 6:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Pike | 119 min |
| Mar 16, 6:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Barbour | 119 min |
| Mar 16, 9:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Barbour | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Macon, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 11:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Henry | 3 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.