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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Mobile, AL

May 10, 1995Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 246 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

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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 48 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 9, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw54 min
May 10, 12:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia46 min
May 10, 12:37 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia53 min
May 10, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox31 min
May 10, 1:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile56 min
May 10, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin55 min
May 10, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBDallas34 min
May 10, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia30 min
May 10, 1:45 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBCovington60 min
May 10, 2:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin27 min
May 10, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGeneva39 min
May 10, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile62 min
May 10, 3:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBarbour44 min
May 10, 3:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin, Mobile3 hr
May 10, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin49 min
May 9, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBPerry59 min
May 9, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGreene62 min
May 9, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBStone48 min
May 9, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGeorge35 min
May 10, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBSanta Rosa37 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.