Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 100531 SVRMOB ALC053-100615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1229 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 1226 AM CDT MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF ATMORE ALABAMA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IT WILL PASS NEAR WALLACE AT 1245 AM CDT. A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATMORE AND IS ALSO MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IT WILL PASS NEAR ATMORE BY 100 AM. 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 SEVERE 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, May 9, 6:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-100045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 642 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WALTON...BAY...WASHINGTON AND HOLMES COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 7 PM CDT... AT 630 PM CDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN WALTON...HOLMES AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. THE AREAS AROUND BONIFAY...PONCE DE LEON AND DE FUNIAK SPRINGS WILL CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION EXTENDED ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHA NDLE FROM WASHINGTON TO ESCAMBIA COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO INDICATED OVER THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOBILE ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, May 9, 7:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-100145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 742 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR HOLMES COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM CDT... AT 725 PM CDT...THAT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL WALTON...SOUTHEAST HOLMES AND EAST WASHINGTON COUNTIES. STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS OVER THESE COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITAION EXTENDED ACROSS THE PANHANDLE FROM WASHINGTON TO ESCAMBIA COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOBILE ALABAMA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 54 min |
| May 10, 12:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 53 min |
| May 10, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 31 min |
| May 10, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 56 min |
| May 10, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| May 10, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas | 34 min |
| May 10, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 30 min |
| May 10, 1:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 60 min |
| May 10, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 27 min |
| May 10, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Geneva | 39 min |
| May 10, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 62 min |
| May 10, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Barbour | 44 min |
| May 10, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| May 10, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 49 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.