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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Mobile, AL

April 23, 1995Montgomery County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 4:53 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1995, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Montgomery County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 48 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMGM 232155
SVRMGM
ALC101-232300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
453 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY
 
AT 4:50 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MONTGOMERY INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE LOWNDES-MONTGOMERY COUNTY LINE...ABOUT 10
MILES NORTHEAST OF FT. DEPOSIT...AND 15 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF
MONTGOMERY. BASED ON CURRENT TRAJECTORY...THE STORM WILL INTERSECT THE
SOUTHEAST SECTION OF MONTGOMERY WITHIN 45 MINUTES...OR BETWEEN 5:30 AND
5:45.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PERSONS CAUGHT IN ITS PATH SHOULD SEEK
SHELTER AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR
CONTINUING UPDATES.

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, 3:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 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, 1 hour 12 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 4:38 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-232245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
438 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT...

AT 425 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA
INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...WERE OVER SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THE HEAVIEST
RAIN WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF MOBILE.

MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 9:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin55 min
Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler60 min
Apr 23, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLowndes32 min
Apr 23, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock, Macon55 min
Apr 23, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBChambers, Lee, Tallapoosa67 min
Apr 23, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBChambers, Lee, Tallapoosa59 min
Apr 23, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBMacon59 min
Apr 23, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBChambers58 min
Apr 23, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin50 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.