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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Mobile, AL

May 10, 1995Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 3:42 AM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 3:42 AM CDT (08:42 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 4:26 AM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 975 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
975 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
377 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 100843
SVRMGM
ALC005-100930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
342 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...BARBOUR COUNTY
 
AT 342 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
WESTERN BARBOUR COUNTY NEAR BOOT HILL. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25
MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS CLAYTON BETWEEN 345 AND 400
AM...AND SOUTH OF EUFAULA BY 415 AM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERS
TORMS 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 55 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 47 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, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGeneva39 min
May 10, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile62 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.