Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 4:28 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lowndes County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 232129 SVRMGM ALC085-232215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 428 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...LOWNDES COUNTY AT 4:25 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MONTGOMERY INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME NORTHEAST BUTLER COUNTY...JUST SOUTH OF FT. DEPOSIT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH...AND WAS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST LOWNDES COUNTY WITHIN A FEW MINUTES. 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 CHOVERS 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
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 10:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-231630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1030 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 1025 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 0VER SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN SANTA ROSA COUNTY 10 MILES EAST OF MILTON WHILE STRONG THUNDErRSTORMS WERE OVER THE NOTHERN WALTON COUNTY FLORIDA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 10:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-231630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1040 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 200 PM CDT... AT 1025 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 0VER SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SANTA ROSA COUNTY 10 MILES NORTH- WEST OF MILTON WHILE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE NOTHERN WALTON COUNTY FLORIDA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 3:34 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-232130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 330 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 330 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 0VER SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS IN NORTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY AND N>EAR BAYOU LA BATRY ALABAMA. A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS WERE OVER NORTHERN WALTON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 3:41 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
MSZ067-076-079-232145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 342 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 259 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT IN WAYNE... GEORGE AND GREENE COUNTIES IN MNISSISSIPPI. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THORUGH THESE COUNTIES EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON HAS MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 9:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 60 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.