Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Mobile, AL
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| May 10, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 60 min |
| May 10, 2:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| May 10, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 61 min |
| May 10, 5:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| May 10, 5:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 5 hr |
| May 10, 6:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 37 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.