Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 12:59 AM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilcox County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 KBHM 100600 SVRMGM ALC131-100630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL 1259 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...WILCOX COUNTY AT 1259 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAMDEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 17 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, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 46 min |
| May 10, 12:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 53 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
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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.