Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT for Bullock County, Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 6:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullock County, AL, Macon County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 232222 SVRMGM ALC087-011-232315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 519 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...MACON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...NORTHWESTERN BULLOCK COUNTY AT 515 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES PER HOUR FROM CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHWEST BULLOCK WITHIN 20 MINUTES AND MACON COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. LALSO THIS THUNDRSTORM HAS PRODUCED 3/4 INCH HAIL AS IT PASSED THROUGH PREVIOUS COUNTIES. IF OUTSIDE MOVE INTO A STRONG STUCTURE AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 45 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 38 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, 41 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.
| 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, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lowndes | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 5:53 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.