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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Mobile, AL

May 10, 1995Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 12:53 AM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 12:53 AM CDT (05:53 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 262 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 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3211 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 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
3211 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
4.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 100554
SVRMOB
FLC113-100630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1253 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...SANTA ROSA COUNTY
 
AT 1252 AM CDT...MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY NEAR MCDAVID. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE
EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL PASS NEAR BERRYDALE BY 115 AM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE O'R 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, 7:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa60 min
May 10, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa60 min
May 10, 2:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBSanta Rosa3 hr
May 10, 2:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia3 hr
May 10, 5:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia61 min
May 10, 5:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa5 hr
May 10, 5:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBOkaloosa5 hr
May 10, 6:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBSanta Rosa37 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.