Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 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, 11.9 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 232355 SVRMOB ALC003-240045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 655 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF MOUNT VERNON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH TENSAW BY 710 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVE4RE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 3:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 342 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 259 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT IN WAYNE...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, 2 hours 17 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 5:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-232330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 535 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 525 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 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOTHAN AND 25 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF PENSACOLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 5:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ALZ051>053-055-056-059-061>064-232350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 549 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 259 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT IN CHOCTAW... CLARKE...WASHINGTON...MONROE...CONECUH...ESCAMBIA...MOBILE AND BALDWIN COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS EITHER DISSIPATED OR MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:38 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-240045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 639 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 625 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...AND GULF WATERS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHWEST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:41 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-240045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 639 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 625 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...AND GULF WATERS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
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, 5:19 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 |
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.