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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Mobile, AL

May 9, 1995Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 6:30 AM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1995, 6:30 AM CDT (11:30 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1995, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Stone County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2084 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2084 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.3
Supercell composite
15.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 091132
SVRMOB
MSC131-091200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
630 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...EASTERN STONE COUNTY
 
AT 630 AM CDT...MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3
MILES EAST OF PERKINSTON. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORM WAS TO THE
EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED FOR GEORGE COUNTY WITHIN
30 MINUTES.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, May 9, 5:41 AM CDT, 49 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-091145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
541 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL
WATERS UNTIL 11 AM CDT...

AT 525 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A
LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH AN EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORM...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...EXTENDED FROM NEAR CRESTVIEW TO MOBILE AND CONTINUED WESTWARD TO
NEAR NEW ORLEANS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF GULFPORT
MISSISSIPPI.

MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, May 9, 6:29 AM CDT, 1 minute before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
625 AM CDT TUE MAY 5, 1995

TIME             EVENT
606 AM           TREES DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY 26 IN GEORGE COUNTY
                 MISSISSIPPI 3 MILES WEST OF BENNDALE.  REPORT
                 BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBStone45 min
May 9, 5:43 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBGeorge62 min
May 9, 6:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBStone3 hr
May 9, 6:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGeorge50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.