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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Mobile, AL

July 25, 1994Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 12:05 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1994, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1994, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1994-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 763 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1994-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
763 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMGM 251707 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC005-251800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
1205 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...BARBOUR COUNTY
 
AT 1205 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST BARBOUR
COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 1:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington58 min
Jul 25, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBarbour66 min
Jul 25, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler68 min
Jul 25, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMontgomery52 min
Jul 25, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock, Crenshaw, Pike62 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.