Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 7:05 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1995, 7:05 AM CDT (12:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1995, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 091207 SVRMOB ALC097-091300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 705 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY AT 705 AM CDT...MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS CENTERED OVER NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD BE OVER THE MOBILE METROPOLITAN AREA BY 8 AM. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. 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, 1 hour 24 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, 36 minutes 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.Special weather statement, May 9, 6:39 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-091245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 639 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATER UNTIL 11 AM CDT... AT 625 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH AN EMBEDDED CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY >TO MOBILE AND CONTINUED WESTWARD TO NEAR NEW ORLEANS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN GULFPORT AND MERRILL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 10:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 65 min |
| May 9, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 68 min |
| May 9, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 64 min |
Nearby
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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.