Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 1:30 AM CDT for Okaloosa 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
County Okaloosa County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 2056 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 100631 SVRMOB FLC033-091-113-100730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 130 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...ESCAMBIA COUNTY...OKALOOSA COUNTY...SANTA ROSA COUNTY AT 125 AM CDT A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER SANTA ROSA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WINDS WELL IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AT MCCLELLAN. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO OKLAOOSA COUNTY BY 135 AM. IN ADDITION...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA AND WILL MOVE INTO ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA BY 145 AM. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN TAND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR 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 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 37 min |
| May 10, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 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.