Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 9:20 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 9:20 AM CDT (14:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 231419 SVRMOB ALC003-231515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 920 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...BALDWIN COUNTY AT 920 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH BALDWIN COUNTY. T$HIS STORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH BAY MINETTE DURING THE NEXT HOUR AND REMAIN NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
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, Apr 23, 7:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-231345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 741 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 725 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWEST ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA FROM 10 MILES NORTH WEST OF BEATRICE TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOBILE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALSO EXTENDED ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TO THE COAST. MODERATE RAIN COVERED SOUTHERN ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHT0NING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 8:28 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-231430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 830 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 825 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT BEGAN NEAR MONTGOMERY ALABAMA AND EXTENDED SOUTHWEST THROUGH MOBILE TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF MOBILE. MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WILL MOVE INTO ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock, Macon | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Chambers, Lee, Tallapoosa | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Chambers, Lee, Tallapoosa | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Macon | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Chambers | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.