Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 091717 SVRMOB FLC033-091815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1215 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 1212 PM...MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF OAK GROVE IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 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. QREMAIN 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, 7:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-091345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 738 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY UNTIL 11 AM CDT... AT 625 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHERN ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE ACTIVITY EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY TO MILTON AND CONTINUED WESTWARD TO NEAR NEW ORLEANS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN GULFPORT AND LUCEDALE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS RTHE EAST AT 20 TO 25 MILE AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 9, 8:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-091430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 830 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY UNTIL 11 AM CDT... AT 825 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHERN ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE ACTIVITY EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY TO CRESTVIEW AND CONTINUED SOUTHWESTWARD TO NEAR NEW ORLEANS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA JUST TO THE WEST OF MOBILE. . MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 9, 9:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-091530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 930 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY UNTIL 11 AM CDT... AT 925 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHERN ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE ACTIVITY EXTENDED FROM MONTGOMERY ALABAMA THROUGH CRESTVIEW AND CONTINUED SOUTHWESTWARD TO PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA OVER MOBILE BAY JUST TO THE EAST OF MOBILE. MOVEMEN T WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 9, 10:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-091630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1030 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INCLUDING WALTON COUNTY UNTIL 11 AM CDT... AT 1025 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHERN ALABAMAAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE ACTIVITY BEGAN JUST TO THE EAST OF DOTHAN ALABAMA AND EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ENDED NEAR GULFPORT MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA IN CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 9, 11:28 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-091730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1130 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY... AT 1125 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE ACTIVITY BEGAN JUST TO THE EAST OF DOTHAN ALABAMA AND EXTENDED SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ENDED NEAR NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA IN CENTRAL BALDWIN AND MOBILE COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, May 9, 11:29 AM CDT, 46 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1122 AM CDT TUE MAY 5, 1995
TIME EVENT
1105 AM A TORNADO WAS OBSERVED TO TOUCH DOWN NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF MCRARY AND STONE ROADS. NO DAMAGE
AT THAT LOCATION. REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.
1108 AM UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF TREES DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION
OF LOTT AND COLMAN DAIRY ROADS. TIME APPROXIMATE
THESE LOCATIONS ARE 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE MOBILE
AIRPORT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 59 min |
| May 9, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 44 min |
| May 9, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 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.