Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 1990, 1:27 AM CST for Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 10, 1990, 1:27 AM CST (07:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1990, 2:15 AM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 2180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMGM 100730
SVRMGM
ALC031-045-100815-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
127 AM CST SAT FEB 10 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
...COFFEE...DALE
AT 1 28 AM CST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM JUST SOUTH OF ARITON SOUTHWEST TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ENTERPRISE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTICON 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.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 1:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 58 min |
| Feb 10, 2:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 68 min |
| Feb 10, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas, Wilcox | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 2:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 46 min |
| Feb 10, 2:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga, Lowndes | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coosa, Elmore | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 3:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 25 min |
| Feb 10, 3:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 63 min |
| Feb 10, 3:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 63 min |
| Feb 10, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Macon, Tallapoosa | 59 min |
| Feb 10, 3:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Chambers, Lee | 56 min |
| Feb 10, 3:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 56 min |
| Feb 10, 3:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock | 56 min |
| Feb 10, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 4:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 4:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 5:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coffee, Dale, Geneva | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 6:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 44 min |
| Feb 10, 8:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
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.