Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 9:30 AM CDT for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 9:30 AM CDT (14:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 231430 SVRMOB FLC033-231530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 930 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 927 AM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE STORM WILL MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH AND REMAIN NORTH OF I-10 BETWEEN DURING THE NEXT HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORVNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 48 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, 1 hour 2 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, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 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.