Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 8:22 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1995, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 729 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 240125 SVRMGM ALC101-240215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 822 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 720 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT MONTGOMERY INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EMBEDDED WITHIN AN AREA OF RAINSHOWERS THAT EXTENDS FROM NORTHEASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY TO SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY.
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, 4:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 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, 2 hours 48 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, 2 hours 34 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, 1 hour 44 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, 1 hour 41 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 7:39 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-240145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 739 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT... AT 725 PM CDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY TO NEAR MOBILE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED 50 MILES NORTH OF PENSACOLA. 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, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 62 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.