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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Mobile, AL

May 10, 1995Geneva County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 2:53 AM CDT for Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 2:53 AM CDT (07:53 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 3:32 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Geneva County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2056 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 100754
SVRMGM
ALC061-100900-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
253 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...GENEVA COUNTY
 
AT 2:53 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE
COVINGTON/GENEVA COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM HAS DOWNED TREES AND POWER
LINES IN COVINGTON COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH, AND WILL
AFFECT THE SAMSON AND GENEVA AREAS BETWEEN 3 AND 3:15 AM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBETR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
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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

Local storm report, May 10, 1:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
145 AM CDT WED MAY 6, 1995

TIME             EVENT
135 AM           ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA EMA OFFICIALS REPORTED TREES
                 AND POWER LINES DbOWN AROUND WALNUT HILL AND HIGHWAY
                 97.
Special weather statement, May 10, 1:55 AM CDT, 58 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-100800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
156 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY IN EFFECT UNTIL
7 AM CDT...

AT 130 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS OVER NORTHWEST
FLORIDA AND SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THE ACTIVITY EXTENDED FROM BREWTON TO
MOLINO AND CONTINUED WESTWARD TO JUST SOUTH OF MOBILE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN
WAS LOCATED NEAR BREWTON AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF MOBILE.

MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE
MOVING INTO WALTON COUNTY BY 230 AM.

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, 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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.