Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 3:28 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 100830 SVRMOB ALC097-ALZ501-100930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 328 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY AND FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA INCLUDING MOBILE BAY AT 326 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GAUTIER MISSISSIPPI MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR GRAND BAY BY 350 AM. SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND 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
Local storm report, May 10, 1:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 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, 1 hour 33 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.
| 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, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 31 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, 3:42 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
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.